Government's reputation will rest on handling of housing crisis

If ‘Housing 2.0’ fails to turn the tide, it will have been clear that, rather than turning the corner, the Government has been leading us in circles

Summing up the asks of industry, the chair of CIF’s Irish Home Builders Association Michael Kelleher urged the Government to make the “necessary policy changes” so its members can deliver homes. File picture: Alamy

Addressing a crowd of hundreds in Croke Park earlier this week, the most senior civil servant in the department of housing coined a new term before immediately trying to pull back on it, as he foreshadowed soon-to-be-published fresh Government plans on housing.

“So that is what ‘Housing 2.0’ — which I hope doesn’t take off as a phrase — but that’s what I think it will need to be about,” Graham Doyle said.