The Public Expenditure Minister was speaking after a budget worth €6.4 billion was announced earlier in the Dáil
Paschal Donohoe is rejecting Sinn Féin criticism that Budget 2024 is a 'budget for landlords' and not for renters.earlier in the Dáil.
"What we are doing from a tenant perspective is many multiples of where we are with the measure with regard to landlords. "Whenever you bring forward a measure, understandably, those who are involved in the sector will always say it should be bigger.'A bigger rental sector'"This is a critique you hear from Sinn Féin often: in their view, anything that we do to help landlords is automatically a bad thing.
Minister Donohoe said the housing measures announced mean the State should hit its target for the sector."I'm very confident that for next year we'll do even better and be able to build on the 400 people every week that are now buying their own home directly.
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