The Government's Social Housing Strategy will help address the issues of housing supply, according to the Labour party.

Tánaiste Joan Burton was speaking at a meeting of Labour party activists in Dublin where more than 100 Councillors, local election candidates and members attended.

She said: "The Government understands the problems people are facing in terms of housing – from people living with the threat and the reality of homelessness to young families who cannot find affordable properties.

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"That is why we are bringing forward, under the guidance of Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly, a Social Housing Strategy, that will seek to address supply through a more ambitious build programme and increased private sector construction.

"While I don't want to pre-empt the final housing strategy, which will have to be agreed by Government, it will also need to set out ambitious pathways to make maximum use of our existing stock and to reform and resource the social housing sector."

(CD/JP)