Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 May 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Patrick Davitt:

No. I'm talking about in general and I'm talking about property in general here. I'm not talking about first-time buyers. So, they would have this, and this ... it's viewed every two years in Germany. Now it could be viewed every year in Ireland until such time as we get to a figure ... a yield figure that we're happy about. But for first-time buyers, like, 20% of a money for a first-time buyer to buy a property is a considerable amount of money to have to get their hands on to buy a property.