Mortgage Interest Rates
Dail Éireann — 2022-11-10
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Paschal Donohoe (FG), Dublin Central

I understand hard-pressed households are looking to the Government for help, which we provided in budget 2023 and which we want to provide to make a difference.
However, those hard-pressed households, the citizens of Ireland who are experiencing such strain, also have an expectation that any proposals that will be brought forward will be affordable, will make sense and will not create new risks for our country. The Deputy's party is now advocating that the State pay a share of increasing mortgage bills in the time ahead. His party has said it wants the State to pay each renter a month's rent. It has advocated a proposal in respect of energy price caps, which the Government in the United Kingdom is committed to ending.

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Sitting date: 2022-11-10