Minister to outline benefits of building social housing

Labour’s Housing Minister Jan O’Sullivan is trying to convince her Cabinet colleagues of the jobs and economic potential that could be created if the Government was to start building social housing again.

In a speech at a conference on housing in Cork today, Ms O’Sullivan will outline the “social benefit and economic stimulus potential in modernising the public housing stock through new-build, regeneration and retrofitting”.

The Government, and the Labour Party in particular, has been coming under strong pressure from Sinn Féin over growing housing lists around the country and the failure of Nama to release property for social housing.