Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

—— and preferential home loans and the taxation element that levels the preferential options for those who have preferential loans as opposed to those who do not. There are countless variations of the intervention that could be taken that could have managed the market in such a way as to allow first-time house buyers to be able to compete in the marketplace like everybody else. We were able to do that when there was no money in the country.

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