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Tue 09 Sep 2008Cowen claims aid to buyers will not inflate house prices

THE GOVERNMENT will not "artificially inflate" house prices, but will offer help to the lower-paid to get local authority loans, Taoiseach Brian Cowen said yesterday.

Under a plan to go to Cabinet tomorrow, the Housing Finance Agency is to get a line of credit from the National Treasury Management Agency.