Pat Gallagher (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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447. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has any plans to expand or amend the help-to-buy scheme to help more buyers; if he will consider certain changes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12956/25]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The Help to Buy (HTB) incentive, is a scheme to assist first-time purchasers with the deposit they need to buy or build a new house or apartment. It also has as an aim the encouragement of additional supply of new houses by supporting demand.

The relief takes the form of a rebate of income tax, including DIRT, paid in the State over the previous four tax years.

The level of support available to first time buyers is the lesser of:

• €30,000;
• ten per cent of the purchase price of a new home/self-build property; or,
• the amount of Income Tax and DIRT paid in the four years before application for the relief.