The Minister for Housing’s subterfuge over a key housing target can’t conceal the shortfall of 24,000 homes
Building high-quality temporary homes for people seeking asylum would allow them live in dignity and comfort
Troubled waters ahead in bid to channel services into a single utility
The fact Peter Casey, a presidential candidate, was able to resonate so widely by trading in prejudice should surprise no one
The Minister for Housing’s monthly figures have been so distorted by political machinations that they are of little value and should be taken out of his control
At a time when the social and affordable housing crisis is deepening and public anger is rising, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil saw fit to increase the capital budget on housing by a mere 6.5 per cent
Like so much of the government’s housing policy since the publication of Rebuilding Ireland, the grandeur of the Land Development Agency announcement quickly starts to fade when you examine the details
A “mad hatter’s party” was how one local described the very public row between Minister for...
The Dáil term looks set to close with a whimper, not a bang. The phoney war of words between Leo...
On publication of the March homeless figures Eoghan Murphy said that 600 adults and children had been removed from the count having been 'erroneously mis-categorised' by local authorities. No further explanation was provided
Eoin Ó Broin TD is Sinn Féin housing spokesperson
Not content with spending €540 million a year subsidising private rental tenants, Fine Gael is hellbent on subsiding private investment funds to build and lease back homes to the state
In order to justify their abandonment of large-scale public housing provision by local authorities, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael governments have crafted a discourse that demonises council estates as ghettos and ganglands
We need to learn from the McElduff debacle – but, too often, commentary on important issues has a clear political motivation
