Industrial Relations

House prices will have to fall if we don’t want our kids to emigrate

Owen Reidy of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions says homeowners must be prepared to take the possible hit on property values, as current spiralling house prices are creating a situation where we are ‘exporting our kids’

Owen Reidy, general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions: 'We engage with the government . . . It seems that the housing issue is quite frankly beyond them.’ Picture: Bryan Meade