Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 July 2022

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Economic Quarterly Report - Summer 2020: Economic and Social Research Institute

Dr. Conor O'Toole:

I can talk generally about the research. The report published today was a piece of work that sought to understand the implications, from a retirement perspective, of the longer-term structural change we have been observing in the housing market over the past number of years. Over a number of censuses, we have seen the share of homeowners decline in Ireland, and the homeownership rate decline for younger age cohorts.