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
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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My solution is to control prices. The State has to deliver large-scale rental or affordable housing through local authorities, mortgage schemes run by the State and so on. The State should control at least a significant amount of the housing stock to provide for people who cannot afford, on their current salaries, what the market is going to charge them.