Cork council plans to make almost 1,000 houses available

Cork County Council aims to provide a record 922 houses this year for those on the waiting list, considerably more than it made available in the previous two years.

Maurice Manning, the council's director of housing, said the number of houses which will be provided to people this year were being built by the local authority itself, acquired through acquisitions from private owners, or 'turnkey' projects, where newly built homes are purchased from developers.