Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland
1:30 pm
Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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Given that housing is probably one of the biggest constraints within the economy, would it not be logical for the Government to really focus on increasing the labour supply in terms of housing? Hundreds of thousands of Irish construction workers left for Australia and Canada just after the last crash. If a concerted effort was made to bring home a significant number of those workers, that would act as a valve for those constraints.