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Darragh O’Brien tries to calm growing fears from US firms over housing crisis

Minister for Housing tells American Chamber of Commerce conference that tackling the housing crisis is the government’s top priority

Darragh O’Brien, Housing Minister: Claims Housing for All plan was ‘single biggest intervention’ State had ever made in housing. Picture: RollingNews.ie

The government moved to reassure US multinationals that the country can address the housing crisis, after American firms identified it as the biggest obstacle to further investment in Ireland.

Darragh O’Brien, the Minister for Housing, told an American Chamber of Commerce Ireland Global Business conference that tackling the housing crisis was the government’s top priority.

He claimed that the plan for doing so was the “single biggest intervention that any government or any state” had ...