Finance Bill 2025 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Seanad Éireann — 2025-12-09
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Cathal Byrne (FG), Cultural and Educational Panel

While I very much appreciate the need for a comprehensive set of reporting on all aspects of housing in this country, the reality is that we have no end of housing reports. We have the Departments of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and Finance and the CSO publishing documentation. The Housing Agency publishes reports examining the housing market. These are only the State agencies. We then have all the private entities that deliver reports such as Goodbody Stockbrokers and Davy Stockbrokers. A plethora of organisations deliver reports. To put in another statutory obligation in the legislation for another set of reports that are already covered by existing bodies does not make sense. A better use of taxpayer's money would be to examine the existing reports published by all those agencies instead of creating an obligation for another set of reports. Those of us in Fine Gael are against this amendment.

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Sitting date: 2025-12-09