Government ‘committed to housing pledge’

THE Government is determined to deliver the 10,000 affordable houses promised to low-income workers under the new Sustaining Progress deal, the Department of the Environment insisted last night.

It was responding to the Fine Gael claim that it will be impossible for the Government to deliver this number of houses within the two years that are left in the current pay deal.

Fine Gael’s Environment spokesman Bernard Allen said he could not see the Government fulfilling this target when not one of the promised 10,000 affordable houses has been built yet.