Mary Butler said that investors will have to help plug the gap in funding as government is under further pressure to ramp up the number of new builds.

‘How loud they laughed and giggled and guffawed and sneered at teachers,’ Louise O’Reilly said about the crowd’s behaviour from a Fine Gael event

Mary Lou McDonald, the party’s president, described the plan as a ‘game-changing’ blueprint to ‘end the housing crisis’.

Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns said the Help to Buy scheme was like giving voters ‘a tiny shovel to get out of a massive hole’.

Just three properties were available within standard HAP limits across the 16 areas surveyed by the Simon Communities in October.

Shanganagh Castle Estate in Shankill, Co Dublin, was delivered by the Land Development Agency (LDA) and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council

Coolsivna Construction Ltd has taken the action against Meath County Council

Darragh O’Brien claimed "everything is trending in the right direction" regarding the Government's measures to tackle the housing crisis

Works have commenced to enable the site of the former St Kevin’s Hospital in Cork City to be turned into 265 social and affordable homes.