Generation of Irish workers ‘locked out’ of home ownership, Pearse Doherty says

Tánaiste and leader of Fine Gael Leo Varadkar acknowledged that the cost of housing in Ireland is “far too high”. Picture: Oireachtas TV/PA

A generation of workers has been locked out of home ownership because of Ireland’s broken housing system, a Sinn Féin TD has said.

Pearse Doherty said the report from the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI) on the cost of delivering apartments in Dublin made for “grim reading”.