Housing

‘Back of the Christmas card’ policy: Darragh O’Brien attacks Sinn Féin’s plan to drive down house prices

Mary Lou McDonald has said her party would get house prices in Dublin ‘as low as we feasibly can’ if in government

Darragh O’Brien, minister for housing, accused Sinn Féin of opposing government housing schemes like the help-to-buy programme, which he says, ‘directly helps people buy homes today at levels not seen for a generation’. RollingNews.ie

Darragh O’Brien has weighed in on a row between Mary Lou McDonald and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar over Sinn Féin’s plan to lower house prices in Dublin, accusing the party of “back of the Christmas card” policy.

In an interview with the Irish Times, McDonald said that, if elected, her party would “get prices as low as we feasibly can”, suggesting a figure of €300,000 – a figure around a third below the current average house ...