Govt urged to double social housing units by 2030
Updated / Monday, 10 May 2021
09:22
Economics Correspondent
The number of social housing units in Ireland needs to double by 2030, according to think-tank Social Justice Ireland.
Its recommendation is made in a submission to the Department of Housing as part of a review of housing policy.
Social Justice Ireland (SJI) said the Government needs to set a target of 20% of all housing to be social housing by the end of this decade.
This would require 14,341 social housing units to be built each year at a cost of €3.3bn per annum.
It wants the sale of State land to be prohibited and used for social housing.
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Minister Brophy said that he is against changing the order of prioritisation on the vaccine list.
“Lots of people make the case all the time as to why we should maybe move this group up here or this group down or change it around. I ve always had the same view that we shouldn t and that applies to Ministers as well.
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He also raised the question of if certain Cabinet Ministers were to be vaccinated, how the decision would be made between the Minister for Health or members of Nphet.