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:

No. Absolutely not. We do a benchmarking exercise externally because we are subject to state aid rules, so we have to make sure that what we offer does not distort competition in the marketplace. We would have done a benchmarking exercise at the time to make sure this temporary fund would not distort competition. That is all it was. It was a response to Covid-19 and it is closed now. It would have been be like for like in terms of the marketplace.