Housing policy 'not a disaster', claims minister in response to Michael D Higgins

At the opening of a Tiglin facility for vulnerable young adults Kildare, Jigginstown Manor, President Michael D Higgins said the housing crisis in this country is a 'great, great, great failure'. Picture: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin

The Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien has hit back at the President, saying that housing policy is “certainly not a disaster”.

President Michael D Higgins had said on Tuesday that Ireland’s housing situation was a “disaster” and the country’s “great, great, great failure”.