The Minister for Housing has been told that the ‘perfect storm’ is preventing people from buying homes in Donegal.
Sinn Fein’s Padraig MacLochlainn was speaking in the Dáil yesterday, when he outlined issues surrounding high rent prices, high costs relating to buying a home as well as the defective concrete block crisis.
Deputy MacLochlainn says that the housing market is effectively frozen, as many houses cannot be sold to Donegal County Council because of this.
He also says that the cost of a starter home in Donegal does not line up with the average incomes of those in the county:
