Fianna Fáil leader Michael Martin has defended the move by his party’s housing minister in the face of Ireland’s continuing housing crisis, reports Breaking News.
A new record is being broken for the number of stays in temporary facilities this year.
The latest figures from the Department of Housing show there were 12,847 people in temporary facilities in July, up 200 from the 12,600 recorded the previous month.
The latest figures include 9,018 adults and 3,829 children.
Mr Martin was speaking on the second day of Fianna Fáil’s think tank in Tipperary, where housing minister Darragh O’Brien is expected to provide an update on the government’s housing for all policy.
Mr Martin said population growth and the coronavirus pandemic have slowed construction.
Covid did hold us back for a year and a half in terms of construction… but we are exceeding the targets in Housing for All,” he told RTÉ, reports Breaking News.
“There is a whole variety of schemes that have been developed in terms of affordable housing, in terms of cost rental, in terms of social housing with over 10,000 provided last year. So we’re consistently now in a position where over the next number of years, with over 10,000 social houses to be provided. That’s way in excess of anything before we came into office… and likewise there has been imaginative schemes around affordable housing,” he added, reports Breaking News.
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