Call for spending on social housing

The Irish Council for Social Housing (ICSH) today called for increased spending on social housing, saying that it should be prioritised as an investment that offered "an economic and social return".

“For every 1,000 units built we can sustain over 1000 jobs in construction activity which provides an economic return to the exchequer, savings on welfare payments as well as preventing a housing crisis," said ICSH Executive Director Donal McManus.