Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 July 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed)

3:40 pm

Photo of Kieran O'DonnellKieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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We are always looking for options that will work. Social housing represents a major issue and the feedback our guests are receiving is being reflected in our constituency offices. Many people in the lower income groups cannot make ends meet and have mortgages they cannot afford. It is a question of giving them some respite. Is this a fair assessment of what our guests, for example, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, have been finding?