Govt Slammed Over Failure To Address Ongoing Housing Crisis

Fianna Fáil has hit out at the Government over its failure to address the ongoing housing crisis in Ireland.

Dublin Mid-West and Chair of the Housing and Homelessness Committee, John Curran, said the housing action plan is not increasing the supply of homes.

Deputy Curran also made the comments in response to a reply from Minister Coveney to a Parliamentary Question on the Government's progress to date to build 200 new Rapid Build Homes by the end of 2016.


Deputy Curran said: "The Minister has now confirmed to me in a Parliamentary Question that a total of 22 rapid build units have been built. We are now well into Quarter four of this year and little urgency is being shown to implement the plan in order to tackle the crisis that is homelessness for many families living in hotels and B&B's.

"22 completed units at this stage in the year out of a plan to build 200 by the end of the year is very disappointing, this plan is making very little progress to move the unacceptable level of families in emergency accommodation into suitable homes.

"If the implementation of this report was being carried out in a timely fashion we should be rapidly reducing the number of homeless people, but the situation is getting worse."

(CD/LM)