Finance minister rules out tax breaks for property developers that previously 'did such harm'

'What I’m not going to do is reintroduce or propose the very tax reliefs that did such harm to our economy and then the building of homes for many years in Ireland,' Paschal Donohoe said

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has ruled out the reintroduction of broad tax breaks for developers to stimulate housebuilding as they previously "did such harm to our economy".

His comments appear to contradict Taoiseach Micheál Martin, who floated the idea of such tax breaks last week.