Your letters page of April 17, and the adjoining article by Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Broin, debated Ireland’s housing crisis.

“It is important to recognise the positive effects that institutional investment can have,” according to Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy, who fails to see any downside to international corporations buying swathes of property in the country.

ONE of the last acts of the current crazy government before it exited the stage for a long summer break was to impose a €200 levy on every second and subsequent housing unit in the state.