Housing minister tight-lipped on Budget 2019

There were no great revelations from Eoghan Murphy at the CIF conference – rather the promise of nothing drastic in the budget

Hopes of getting a sneak peak into what might come up in Tuesday’s Budget 2019 presentation were dashed at the CIF annual conference in Croke Park last week when Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy told the crowd that there would be no surprises in the budget.

Why not? Surely, the once-a-year opportunity to introduce tax tweaks and tinker with the fiscals driving the construction and development elements in a dysfunctional housing sector must ...