Partnership the key to feeding building boom: housing group

The Irish Council for Social Housing is calling for more building land to be made available to meet demand for accommodation.

It says the voluntary sector must be able to start steadily increasing allocation to meet Government guidelines of 4,000 homes a year by 2006.

Local authorities are being called on to accelerate the release of land to facilitate building.

Executive director of the ICSH Donal McManus says public-private partnership is the key.

He says authorities need to remove the obstacles to the acquisition of land and capital funding.