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Jump To Comment: 1There's no song like an old song.
Fianna Fail are running out of confidence tricks.this one in todays times is so old and discredited as to ask do they take us all for monkeys-or are they in a hurry to leave office with their bags stuffed with developers cash ?
Minister Dermot Ahern said he is drawing up plans for new "super affordable" housing aimed at individuals earning about €25,000 a year.
He said funding for such an initiative "could" come from money handed over to local authorities by developers in lieu of providing social and affordable housing.! Now where did we hear that one before?
Labour's environment spokesman Eamon Gilmore said: "People in need of housing can have no confidence in this type of 11th hour pronouncement from what is a dying Government.
A Dying government.?