Government acknowledges that up to 35,000 new houses need to be built for refugees, but thousands of people have been years on housing lists – TheLiberal.ie – Our News, Your Views

Government acknowledges that up to 35,000 new houses need to be built for refugees, but thousands of people have been years on housing lists




Government Ministers are falling over each other to see who can virtue signal the hardest about housing refugees, and have acknowledged that up to 35,000 new houses need to be built to accommodate refugee demand alone.

But thousands of people have been waiting for a home for a long time, years in some cases, and there was never any apparent rush to have these people housed.

It is also a no-expense-spared affair, with a budget of €2.5 billion being discussed.

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