Housing

Audio of Housing Commission sessions to be recorded after row over inaccurate minutes

The housing policy body will record the audio of of meetings

Housing Commission meeting minutes show that Michael O’Flynn, the developer, clashed with John O’Connor, chair (pictured) and Patricia King, deputy chair. Picture: Fergal Phillips

The state’s Housing Commission has begun recording the audio of meetings after rows between members over inaccurate minutes being made.

The body, set up in 2022, was established by government to produce a strategy report on long-term housing policy and research potential wording for a referendum that would insert a right to housing into the constitution.

Last June and July, tensions emerged between Housing Commission members following a series of fractious meetings at which referendum ...