Government will revise housing targets upwards – Michael McGrath

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Cork City Council CEO Ann Doherty, Lord Mayor Kieran McCarthy, Finance Minister Michael McGrath and Paudie Murnane of Murnane & O'Shea, in one of the 70 affordable homes at Heathfield, Ballincollig, delivered by Cork City Council in partnership with Murnane & O'Shea. Picture: Michael O'Sullivan 

The Government plans to revise its housing targets upwards, the Finance Minister Michael McGrath has said during visits to two affordable housing projects in Cork.

The state is now “the central actor” when it comes to delivering housing, he said, with evidence across the country of “real momentum building”.