A gaping hole has appeared in Eoghan Murphy’s housing plan

The Minister for Housing’s subterfuge over a key housing target can’t conceal the shortfall of 24,000 homes

Eoghan Murphy has quietly revised downwards one of his key housing targets. There was no press conference, no media release, not even a tweet. Instead, just a subtle but significant change in language, the result of which has been to create a hole at the very heart of his housing plan.

One of Rebuilding Ireland’s core objectives is to “ramp up delivery of housing from its current under-supply across all tenures”. Page 8 ...