The Taoiseach has refused to confirm whether a Government department is planning a number of roadshows to attract more "cuckoo funds" to Ireland.
Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald raised the matter in the Dail, and asked Micheal Martin to clarify whether he approved of the roadshow. "You of course excluded apartments from the stamp duty increase which means it's still open season for cuckoo funds on more more than half of the homes that are built in this city."On Sunday we learn that your ministers Darragh O'Brien and Paschal Donohue are looking to dust off the red carpet again and roll it out for these funds.
"This government is very committed to really enhancing public housing supply and also in terms of affordable housing in a very substantive way for the first time ever.