Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 March 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Ms Dara Deering:

As I said, we lend the money we have been given on commercial terms to entities that build homes for either the private market, the social market or the rental market. That is our mandate and role, and it is what we were set up by the State to do. That taxpayer money may fund homes for owner-occupiers or for the rental market. Ultimately, to get to a stage where there are more affordable homes for purchase or rent, we need to see a lot more measures-----