Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 November 2016

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage

10:00 am

Photo of Michael NoonanMichael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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The signal from the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government was not that significant work done to a house would be taken into account. What would be taken into account was the assumption that the tenant had in excess of €5,000 in savings to carry out the work in the first instance, which should have been part of a means assessment for rent.