Matching Northern housing grants
Harte asks the Minister to match Northern grants for home repairs; the Minister challenges how increased grants would be funded and defends existing subsidies and grants. The next question is postponed.
When speaking with his counterpart in the North was the Minister not aware of the generous grants which are available there and would he not match those grants for people here who wish to repair their homes?
Comment on this
Does the Deputy suggest that the money for increased grants should be raised by higher taxes or by borrowing? Would the Deputy suggest how the money should be raised? We have a system of mortgage subsidies, new house grants and reconstruction grants and the people in the North were particularly interested in the incentives we are giving in the mortgage subsidy scheme. It is not all one-way traffic, as the Deputy tries to imply.
