Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 September 2018

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Priorities for Budget 2019: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

2:00 pm

Mr. Seamus Coffey:

There is no doubt that there is a difference between the provision of public housing on a cost basis versus the provision of public housing on a market price basis. Doing so in the long term on a cost basis should be more sustainable, but the issue Ireland has had historically is that we have provided houses on a cost basis and then sold them off.