The Department of Housing has defended a €1billion underspend as it blamed Covid-19, inflation and the war in Ukraine for the unused funds.
Figures released to Sinn Fein’s housing spokesperson Eoin O Broin in a parliamentary question response revealed that large levels of money went unspent between 2020 and 2022. The money, he claimed, could have built 4,000 social homes.
Labour leader Ivana Bacik, meanwhile, suggested that the underspend indicated that Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien was “out of his depth”.
