Developer weighing up social housing initiative

Group is chaired by former defence minister Willie O’Dea

Willie O'Dea is one of two former Fianna Fáil ministers on the board of Formation Group Picture: Press22

Formation Group, the listed developer chaired by Fianna Fáil TD Willie O’Dea, is plotting an expansion into housing in Dublin, Cork and O’Dea’s native Limerick.

The company is planning to acquire a large housing development site out of receivership in Dublin, and is considering other opportunities in Ireland, including “a substantial development for social housing”, one of its advisers told The Sunday Business Post.

Majority-owned by the wealthy Kennedy property investment family, Formation ...