Minister: ‘Wholly incorrect’ that rent subsidies are cash bonus for landlords

Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien during the official opening of 118 new cost rental homes in west Dublin (Niall Carson/PA)

The housing minister has said it is “wholly incorrect”‘ to say that rent subsidies are “cash bonus for landlords”.

Labour leader Ivana Bacik said that the initiatives announced by government have failed to deliver and that Housing for All’s “promises and its aspirations jar with the reality” faced by the public.