Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is slightly disingenuous to look at this in isolation. The Deputy neglected to mention the cost-of-living measures we brought forward in the last budget, which was the most significant package of measures brought forward and more than even the Deputy’s party looked for. Sinn Féin's targeted measure, as far as we can discern, would affect about 716,000 mortgages. That party has not provided costings to us, though it was asked for them. We estimate that approach would cost about €655 million. It has to make choices within that.

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