Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 May 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Dr. Conor O'Toole:

We have seen from the work Dr. Slaymaker has done that the inflation cap has been efficacious. The pricing has come back to the cap, according to the data, and that was actually very clear when the tightening of the policy happened. If a larger cap is allowed, it likely that pricing will move up to it. There is evidence of that.