Councillor wants full report on spurious house refusals

A full report into trumped-up reasons why people refused Cork County Council homes is being demanded by the leader of the largest party on the council.

Fine Gael’s Councillor Kevin Murphy said he would be requesting the report from the council’s chief Tim Lucey executive following yesterday’s story in the Irish Examiner which highlighted some of the allegedly spurious reasons why social housing was declined.

One women refused a house with a harbour view due to likely “sea sickness” while another believed a garden was too small for a trampoline.