Irish Examiner view: Home buying scheme has failed to deliver

Our housing crisis has been pretty close to the top of the Government’s list of fixable crises for more than a decade, yet we still have a considerable distance to travel before this problem can be regarded as resolved — if it ever is.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin, in a Christmas interview, set a target of 25,000 homes next year. This is an ambitious goal, over 30% higher than the 18,000 built this year.