After 18 months, Government says it has built no affordable homes

NOT one of the 10,000 affordable houses promised by the Government to low and middle income workers 18 months ago under the Sustaining Progress pay deal has been built.

The homes were included in the three-year pay deal to tackle the shortage in housing supply and the rapid increase in house prices.

At the mid-term review of the Sustaining Progress deal yesterday, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern announced 1,000 of these affordable houses would be provided in Kildare and Galway on State land. An additional 7,800 houses will be made available using surplus local authority land, he added.