Paper trail: fury over 22-page housing form

HOUSING applicants are being forced to fill out a 22-page form for a new scheme of 23 local authority homes.

The detailed form already used in Wexford replaces the three-page form used by Enniscorthy Town Council.

Local authority chairman, Jackser Owens, says it’s “bureaucracy gone mad” and that it’s going to cause a major headache for the council’s two staff charged with going through the form with applicants.