Cork Councillor: ‘Housing buck is passed to local authorities’

The Government has been accused of passing the responsibility for the provision of affordable housing onto councils, with councillors in the country’s largest local authority claiming that a key state strategy for building homes lacks clarity.

The claim was made at yesterday’s meeting of Cork County Council, where representatives discussed an update from Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy on the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF).

Announced as part of the Government’s Rebuilding Ireland programme, LIHAF aims to deliver 23,000 homes by 2021 and to bring about “public off-site infrastructure to relieve critical infrastructure blockages”.