Commercial Property

Ivan Yates: A Sinn Féin government would be a ‘disaster’ for property market

The former Fine Gael TD and agriculture minister warned that the property sector would fare badly under a Mary Lou McDonald government

Ivan Yates, broadcaster and former Fine Gael agriculture minister: ‘There is no other sector that will be as negatively impacted by a Sinn Féin government than the property sector.’ Picture: Fergal Phillips

People are sleepwalking into a property market “disaster” if they elect Sinn Féin into government, Ivan Yates has said.

Yates, the broadcaster and former Fine Gael agriculture minister, said that Mary Lou McDonald’s party was on course for an overwhelming victory at the next general election, but added that the property sector would fare badly as a result.

“People are sleepwalking into a property disaster. Sinn Féin proposes to abolish the Help to Buy scheme, ...