Taoiseach: Purchase of an entire estate by institutional investor  'unacceptable'

Opposition says there is 'policy to incentivise and support these private funds to buy up housing, right across the State'

Taoiseach Micheál Martin: Our priority is first-time buyers. Picture:Gareth Chaney/Collins

The Taoiseach has said the purchase of an entire estate in Kildare by an institutional investor is "unacceptable".

Micheál Martin was challenged on the issue after the Sunday Business Post revealed that 135 three- and four-bed homes in an estate in Maynooth had been purchased by Round Hill Capital.