Sinn Féin TD accuses minister of ‘taking from Trump playbook’ over housing claims
A Sinn Féin TD has accused Government minister Peter Burke of “watching a lot of Donald Trump” after the Fine Gael TD claimed that Ireland has record levels of home ownership.
Pearse Doherty, the party’s finance spokesperson, said home ownership rates in Ireland have been falling.
It comes as a Savills report found that population growth in Ireland exceeded the delivery of new homes by almost four to one.
The new analysis by Savills found that Ireland is an “outlier” in the severity of its housing supply challenge.
Looking at population growth in comparison with housing delivery between 2015 and 2023, the analysis shows that 3.8 people were added to the population for every new unit of housing delivered, a ratio of nearly four to one.
It said this is by far the worst among the countries analysed and 14 per cent higher than the next worse country,…
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