New housing plan criticised as 'early Christmas gift for developers'

Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien will next week bring the affordable housing plan to Cabinet, with a new State agency due to be established which would take equity stakes in first-time buyers' homes. Picture: Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie

The Government's affordable housing plan has been dubbed "an early Christmas gift for developers".

Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien will next week bring the plan to Cabinet, with a new State agency due to be established which would take equity stakes in first-time buyers' homes.