In addition they prevent excess credit from building up within the Irish financial system which can fuel house-price spirals. There are a myriad of other policies that can help determine whether, at any given price, affordable homes can be built. For example, Project Ireland 2040 outlines a number of policies that will affect future housing supply.
As the previous two years, 2019 has seen a fiscal surplus which on consolidated level reached 0.9% of GDP concluding with September. Central government public debt was reduced additionally, to 52.0% of GDP at end-September.