Housing

Ministers to meet Nama over future of Glass Bottle site in Dublin

Darragh O’Brien and Eamon Ryan want to investigate increasing the number of social and affordable homes to be built on city’s last major vacant plot

Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien: to meet with Nama in the coming weeks. Picture: Fergal Phillips

Darragh O’Brien and Eamon Ryan are to meet with Nama in the coming weeks “to see if anything can be done” with the agency’s 20 per cent stake in the Glass Bottle site to build social and affordable homes.

Following reports in the Business Post of a controversial deal being finalised between a consortium led by developer Johnny Ronan and the Department of Housing, the ministers have moved to enter discussions with the agency.

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