Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael clash over core issue: housing

have traded insults over each other’s housing policies in an early sign of what is likely to be one of the major battlegrounds in the next general election.

The exchanges came after Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin outlined several policy initiatives in a speech to the party’s youth wing, Ógra, on Saturday.

Mr Murphy characterised Mr Martin’s pledges as “entirely disingenuous”. He said Fianna Fáil had for three years “promised a housing plan and still nothing”. “All they have are slogans and soundbites. But now we are seeing some scant detail and even that is very worrying because it is so lacking in substance.”Mr Murphy accused Mr Martin of wanting to interfere with Central Bank independence. “His government did that before and it collapsed the housing sector and the economy.”

He said the Government has already brought in a shared ownership scheme and that Fianna Fáil supported it and the wider Rebuilding

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