€50m allocated for 100 new homes in Limerick

The Government will this year pump €50m into the Limerick regeneration programme with 100 houses to be built, Jan O’Sullivan, the housing minister, said yesterday.

Last month, Phil Hogan, the environment minister, attacked the programme when the Irish Examiner revealed not a single new house had been built since the initiative was launched four years ago.

Despite €116m being spent by the two regeneration agencies, to date the programme has focused on the demolition of 700 abandoned and vandalised houses in Moyross, Southill, St Mary’s Park and Ballinacurra Weston.