Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 May 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Photo of Sean BarrettSean Barrett (Independent)
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And just, can I bring another question to you, if I may? That you called, in Vol. 1 for, on page 55 of that document, in your pre-budget submission, for "a doubling of mortgage interest relief for first-time buyers" and that was in 2007. Wouldn't that have caused yet another bout of house price inflation?