Nenagh Labour activist calls for housing action as many locals 'can't find a home'

The Labour Party in Tipperary has called for Government to “put an end to the endless parade of meaningless figures”, and to update its Housing for All plan in light of a continued failure to reach its self-prescribed targets.

Louise Morgan Walsh, the party’s Nenagh electoral area rep, called for an updated assessment to identify what Tipperary’s potential requirement is, coupled with a clear pathway to ensuring that everyone has a home.

She said that the Taoiseach’s admission this week that the housing crisis was holding us back as a country was of little use to the thousands of people across the country living in precarious situations, living in homelessness and living pay cheque to pay cheque paying extortionate rents.

Ms Morgan-Walsh said that she was particularly concerned at the failure of the Housing Minister to reach his own housing targets for social homes for the past three years in a row.

“I am all too aware of the challenges faced by many people in my home town of Nenagh in finding a home. It’s simply unacceptable.

“No matter what targets the Government sets, the experience of people who come to Deputy Alan Kelly’s office in Nenagh is that they cannot find a home. It is heart-breaking, and no amount of spin can change that,” she said.