'A lot more to do on housing'

A key part of the discussion at the Fine Gael think-in was on the upcoming Budget, but there is no doubt that the issue that has most exercised the party's TDs is the housing crisis

Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar talking to the media at the party's think-in. Pic: RollingNews.ie

There was a distinct sense of ‘copy and paste’ to some ofTaoiseach Leo Varadkar’s address to Fine Gael TDs and Senators at their gathering in Galway Bay yesterday.

His opening speech at the party’s think-in event contained much of the same language he had included in his now-infamous letter to Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin offering a two-year extension to their confidence and supply deal.

There was the budget broadly balanced (check), the ...