Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage
2:00 am
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
On the numbers the Minister has provided, there is going to be a ramping up. He stated the figure related to the measure to exempt tax on cost-rental properties will go up from an initial €2 million to €20 million. Can he outline the position? The issue is that we are talking about future cost rentals. Rising rents will mean the average rent will be quite substantial. My own back-of-the-envelope figures show the figure would be substantially more than €20 million. How many cost-rental properties are we assuming if we are hitting the €20 million in terms of costs?
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