Opposition TDs call for Nama to exit the housing market

It comes after reports that Nama had left 26 apartments in Finglas idle for a decade

Outside Leinster House today People Before Profit - Solidarity TD, Richard Boyd Barrett, said: "Nama is directly contributing to the crisis of unaffordable rents and hoarding land and property that is desperately needed to provide public and affordable housing to address the housing crisis." Photo: Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie

Opposition politicians have called for Nama to step out of the housing market, with one TD saying that the agency is "directly contributing to the housing crisis".

People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett was speaking at Leinster House today after reports that Nama had left 26 apartments in Finglas idle for a decade.