Michael O’Flynn: We can solve the housing crisis. Here is what we need to do

Allowing more land to be developed would mean 25,000 units in the greater Dublin area and 2,500 in metropolitan Cork

Michael O’Flynn battled through the crash and fought the vulture funds before returning to large-scale development Picture: Bryan Meade

Michael O’Flynn sits at a long boardroom table overlooking St Stephen’s Green. The veteran Cork developer has an array of notes in front of him. O’Flynn has built thousands of houses since he founded his company, O’Flynn Construction, in 1978. His personal story – battling through the crash, fighting the vulture funds and returning to large-scale development – has been well told.

We are not meeting to talk about that. Instead O’Flynn wants ...