Spokesperson on Housing, Dessie Ellis, said that he does not want the Irish housing market to revert back to Celtic Tiger levels of property prices.
He said: "The housing crisis in this state has been brought about by increasing rents, lack of social housing and a general lack of houses. These are issues that need to be tackled.
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"Housing has to be affordable and accessible to people all across this state. We have a situation where homelessness is on the rise, where young people are unable to move away from the family home and where a social housing initiative is severely under-resourced.
"Not too long ago I had a constituent into my office in Dublin North West who told me that they had put a bid on a house only to find out not even a day later that the cost of the house had been put up by €20,000."
(CD/JP)
