Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 May 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018 (Resumed): Engagement with Central Bank of Ireland

Ms GrĂ¡inne McEvoy:

The Deputy is quite right. Tax matters do not fall within our remit. The current state of the housing market poses significant challenges for people and individuals seeking access to it. I ask the Deputy to allow us to take that away and come back to her on that matter separately. It is outside what I understood the remit of this discussion to be. The Central Bank has engaged with Government more generally on housing matters, in particular when housing matters impact on mortgage measures and those types of areas. It would be better suited to a bilateral engagement within the Deputy or another discussion by the committee.