75% of home building fund committed to projects
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Construction firms given €285m last year by State s home-building scheme
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Green Party leader asleep at the wheel while taxpayers money used to snap up family homes - Eoin Ó Broin TD
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State paid over €200m towards homes bought by cuckoo funds Sinn Féin TD Eoin Ó Broin condemned the use of public money earmarked for affordable houses to prop up giant institutional funds as ‘an absolute scandal’ 23rd May, 2021
Carton Grove, the Maynooth housing estate, is one of the developments which has prompted an outpouring of criticism towards the state’s housing policy. Picture: Barry Cronin
The Irish state has helped finance the construction of more than 900 homes over the last year which had already been purchased in advance by so-called cuckoo funds.
New information released by Home Building Finance Ireland (HBFI), a state agency, shows it provided hundreds of millions of euro in funding to developers building large-scale residential projects that have already been reserved by institutional funds.