'Your housing policy has failed': Opposition criticises Government after housing report

Labour leader Ivana Bacik said the commission’s report shows that the Government’s measures and policies are not working and not delivering for all those locked out of housing today.

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald: 'Lots of us have been telling you for the longest time that your housing policy has failed.' File Picture: Maxwells

Taoiseach Simon Harris has said the Government will publish the Housing Commission report after the Dáil heard it contains details of “systemic failure” and “damning indictments” of the Government’s housing policy.

The report, which has been submitted to Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien and seen by the Irish Examiner called for a radical strategic reset of housing policy and found that the core issues are "ineffective decision-making and reactive policy-making where risk aversion dominates".