Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 January 2017
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion
4:00 pm
Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Very briefly on that, the Minister is being rather short-sighted, and I am a little surprised. In urban areas, in big cities and towns, investors are beating local young people to purchasing second-hand houses. If the Minister is now going to provide a set of cash incentives, which he has more or less confirmed, to people buying second-hand homes, "doer-uppers", in rural areas, with which I do not have a problem - it sounds very good-----