Housing Minister Simon Coveney recently visited Cork to address the social housing and homeless issues in the area.

Minister Coveney was promoting the Government's 'Rebuilding Ireland – Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness'.

Rebuilding Ireland is a comprehensive, fully-funded Action Plan designed to significantly increase the supply of social housing, to double the output of overall housing from the current levels to at least 25,000-per-annum by 2020.

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The broadly based plan addresses all aspects of the housing system under five Pillars:

• Address Homelessness

• Accelerate Social Housing

• Build More Homes

• Improve the Rental sector

• Utilise Existing Housing

Minister Coveney said: "I am very pleased to be here in Cork today to meet with the Lord Mayor, Councillors, and all stakeholders to focus on what Rebuilding Ireland will mean for Cork and the people of Cork. Rebuilding Ireland is a really ambitious and far-reaching initiative by Government to provide affordable homes for people – it is my own, and this Government's, number one priority. It is about changing and improving the way we deliver housing and thus changing people's lives by providing affordable homes for them and solving the housing challenges that touch practically every family across the country."

(CD/LM)