Housing

Minister sees modular homes as part of solution to housing crisis

Darragh O’Brien says use of model to house Ukrainian refugees will increase confidence in quality of such buildings

Darragh O’Brien, Minister for Housing: ‘I do think there there’s a lot of validity in that being part of the solution to increasing stock quicker.’ Picture: Collins

Darragh O’Brien, the Minister for Housing, has said he is open to using modular housing to tackle the domestic housing crisis.

The government is already planning to boost the number of modular homes it is providing to accommodate Ukrainian refugees around the country.

But there is a growing belief in government that modular housing could be part of the solution to the domestic housing crisis, at a time when there are almost 11,000 people in ...