Labour's Ivana Bacik targets government's housing and climate policies in wide-ranging speech

The Labour leader accused the government of merely 'lurching from crisis to crisis' and 'cobbling together half-hearted fixes'

Party leader Ivana Bacik speaking at the Labour Party conference in the Clayton Silver Springs Hotel in Cork. Photo: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

The government "has abandoned an entire generation to the private rental casino game" which people can only lose, according to Labour Party leader Ivana Bacik.

The current "conservative coalition" Government is "lurching from crisis to crisis" and "cobbling together half-hearted fixes" encapsulated by "its biggest failure", the housing crisis, she told the party's first full annual conference since 2019.