Housing crisis: Sinn Féin is ‘anti-first-time-buyers’, says Martin

does not have a comprehensive housing plan and has “nothing but a collection of soundbites and a few pages”, Tánaiste

Mr Doherty said every day the Government was in office, more and more young people were being forced to live at home with their parents well into their 30s or deciding to emigrate.Proposals to time-limit housing for Ukrainians criticised by refugee groups The Sinn Féin TD also spoke of a woman hospital worker living in Dublin with a good salary aged in her 30s who could not find “a single place to live that is somewhat even reasonable”.

He said targets would be exceeded this year while housing commencements and completions were both up 14 per cent on last year.“When it comes to young people in this country – look at Sinn Féin policies – you don’t do anything for first-time buyers, your policies are anti-first-time buyers,” he said. The Tánaiste said 400 first-time buyers were now buying homes each week, and that the highest number of people drew down mortgages on their first home last year since 2008.

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