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O’Brien and Broin clash over cost of affordable purchase homes launched in south Dublin [Video]

HOUSING MINISTER DARRAGH O’Brien and Sinn Féin’s housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin have clashed over the cost of homes in a new housing development on State-owned land in south Dublin. 

The Shanganagh Castle housing scheme in Shankill, delivered by the Land Development Agency (LDA) and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, was launched by Taoiseach Simon Harris and O’Brien today.

It is the largest public housing project in years, and the first of a pipeline of around 20 housing projects to be completed by the Council on state-owned land.

It will consist of a total of 597 houses and apartments, to be launched in phases. 

Phase one of the development, which was launched today, includes 51 affordable purchase houses, 195 cost-rental apartments and 35 social apartments.

The 51 houses include 21 two-bed and 30 three-bed homes. They are being made available under the Local Authority Affordable Purchase Scheme, which helps eligible buyers purchase a newly built …

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