Simon Coveney faces protest over multibillion housing plan

Housing Minister Simon Coveney will face protests in Cork this morning at a regional briefing on the Government’s multibillion-euro plan to tackle the housing crisis.

Worker’s Party councillor Ted Tynan described the Cork City briefing on the Rebuilding Ireland plan in City Hall as a “cosy” meeting of stakeholders including “builders, speculators, and a few token voluntary bodies”.

He claimed the key stakeholders — any of the thousands of people across the city and county who are languishing on local authority housing waiting lists — will not be able to attend.