206. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he has considered tax breaks for persons or families renting their unoccupied properties to a person or family with an identified social housing need or emergency housing need to facilitate the provision of housing in this current housing emergency; if any income assessment has been carried out where families do not benefit from renting properties as the cost in taxes due are too prohibitive; to identify a scheme where, if a family shows it is providing housing and covering costs and this is not considered as more cost beneficial to the State than the cost of emergency and hotel accommodation, his plans to develop an innovative scheme that will allow these unoccupied properties to be rented to a third party while being family-assessed for tax purposes where it does not cost the family to provide rental accommodation where mortgage payments plus taxes due on the income from rental are higher than actual rental income; the barriers he has identified to the provision of such a scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24360/16]

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206. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he has considered tax breaks for persons or families renting their unoccupied properties to a person or family with an identified social housing need or emergency housing need to facilitate the provision of housing in this current housing emergency; if any income assessment has been carried out where families do not benefit from renting properties as the cost in taxes due are too prohibitive; to identify a scheme where, if a family shows it is providing housing and covering costs and this is not considered as more cost beneficial to the State than the cost of emergency and hotel accommodation, his plans to develop an innovative scheme that will allow these unoccupied properties to be rented to a third party while being family-assessed for tax purposes where it does not cost the family to provide rental accommodation where mortgage payments plus taxes due on the income from rental are higher than actual rental income; the barriers he has identified to the provision of such a scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24360/16]

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