Nama must answer questions on housing

Joe Tiernan

Joe Tiernan has seen it all, and then some. A successful housebuilder, he saw the bubble coming and got out long before it ruptured. Last week, he gave a rare interview to this newspaper, where he deftly wove together strands of past, present and future. Combined, it was a damning indictment of government policy, successive failed housing strategies and Nama.

In short, Tiernan argued that the genesis of the current housing fiasco - ...