Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 October 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection
Job Creation and Mortgage Support Schemes: Discussion with Department of Social Protection
2:45 pm
Ms Helen Faughnan:
Various review groups have come back to us, including the Cooney group report and the Keane group report. All have stated that mortgage interest supplement is not an ideal solution. It started as a short-term measure and it has effectively gone into the long term. In the case of mortgage-to-rent we are seeking to move people onto more long-term and sustainable solutions. That is the route we are going.