Bertie’s housing plan a betrayal of the citizen

THE proposal by the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, to donate valuable state land in return for putative low-cost housing somewhere else is a betrayal of the citizens of the state and especially of those in need of housing — a fraud of vast proportions and, in its structure, a highly dangerous precedent.

Why is the land not sold and the money used to build the houses?

The daft barter deal is an admission of the Government's inability to handle the infrastructural needs of the country.