It comes just days after Tánaiste Simon Harris attempted to distance himself from comments made by Micheál Martin over potential changes to Rent Pressure Zones (RPZs)
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are on a collision course over housing as Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe shot down the idea of tax breaks for developers mooted by the Taoiseach.
Following the Government’s failure to hit its housing target of 33,000 last year, Mr Martin stated last week that the Government was exploring tax breaks for private housing developers. Mr Donohoe said: "There are many, many areas in which we can consider and change our policies in order to achieve that goal.
"From a taxation perspective, we have many plans in place that are seen to work and are seen to play a positive role; Help to Buy, the Shared Home Equity Scheme, the work that we're doing under zoned land tax are all very positive interventions that I believe play a good role in allowing more homes to be built. I will continue to work on those kinds of ideas to see what role they can play.
"We've already acknowledged that it's very difficult to identify how they can be targeted. I don't believe those policies are the ways in which we will make progress in the delivery of more homes."
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