Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 November 2022

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Tom O'Brien:

There are hundreds of thousands of people who come into this country and who have come into this country in the past five or six years who intend to go back to their own country, and they have no interest in buying a house. On the idea that everybody has to buy a house because they are here, a lot of people do not want that. I accept the Deputy's viewpoint but I do not agree with it.