Special Cabinet meeting on housing will consider ‘all different actions’
A special Cabinet meeting on housing will look at and consider “all different actions” and policy options, the Government’s chief whip has said.
Mary Butler said that investors will have to help plug the gap in funding to meet the Government’s target of building 60,000 homes a year.
Ministers are expected to gather on Monday for a special cabinet committee meeting on housing.
It comes as the Government is under further pressure to ramp up the number of new builds after figures from the Central Statistics Office revealed that just over 30,000 new homes were completed last year, far short of the projected 40,000.
The meeting is set to assess a number of housing options, including reviewing tax breaks for developers and builders.
Speaking on RTÉ’s The Week in Politics programme, Ms Butler claimed it was “unfair”…
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