Cavan - Monaghan TD, Pauline Tully has said that the government is failing to deliver social housing after new figures showed that 1,918 people in Cavan are on social housing lists or in receipt of Housing Assistance Payment (HAP). According to Deputy Tully, the only way to start fixing Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael's mismanagement of the housing crisis is with a change of government, a Sinn Féin Minister for Housing and Sinn Féin's alternative housing plan.
Speaking to Northern Sound, the Sinn Fein TD said that the report, published by the Parliamentary Budget Office, estimates that the number of social homes across the state must be increased 56 per cent just to meet the current deficit. Despite this, Deputy says that only last month Taoiseach Simon Harris inexplicably claimed that a sufficient volume of social housing was being delivered. The local TD is now calling for a general election, a change of government and a Sinn Féin Minister for Housing.
