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Robust comments on housing crisis poses a unique challenge for the Government

President Michael D Higgins made an impassioned speech regarding housing in Ireland at an opening ceremony at Jigginstown Manor, a Tiglin facility for vulnerable young adults in Naas, Co Kildare. Picture: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin

THE President’s robust comments on the housing crisis earlier this week pose a unique challenge for the Government.

Speaking at the opening of Tiglin’s transitional housing service at Jigginstown Manor in Kildare on Tuesday, Michael D Higgins slammed the country’s failure on housing and, while he didn’t openly point the finger at the current Government, the broadside was taken as a criticism of at least 10 years of housing policy over which members of this Government had watch.