'Rapid-build' modular homes slower to deliver than expected, says Taoiseach

Modular homes under construction at the Ballinure Land Bank, St Michael's Drive, Mahon, Cork, earlier this year. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has admitted that "rapid-build" modular homes are proving slower to deliver than expected and that "they're not particularly cheap". 

Mr Varadkar said modular housing will continue to form part of the State's response to the housing crisis, particularly in providing homes to refugees and asylum seekers.