No place like home - if you have one

Housing has been the crisis nobody expected when this government came to office – but it is ours, however difficult, to deal with

At the time of the midsummer Cabinet reshuffle, it was confidentially asserted that Alan Kelly would be the new Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. It is not clear why the new Labour Deputy Leader was not given the jobs portfolio. Nor do we know how hard his case was pressed. Whether by accident or design, Kelly was landed in the middle of some of the biggest challenges facing the government for the ...