Company under fire for not providing housing

A development company set up by Limerick City and County Council to accelerate €500m of inward investment assets has hit back at claims it is “failing” to provide any housing units.

Solidarity councillor Cian Prendiville claimed plans by the Limerick Twenty Thirty company to develop a €150m, 50,000sq m office and retail Opera Centre, had “failed to provide a single unit of housing at a time of a major [housing] crisis”.

“We are in the middle of a housing crisis. In particular, there is a real lack of any affordable, quality accommodation in the city centre. And yet now the council is proposing to spend €150m on a development that will not provide a single unit of housing.