The Green Party has hit out at the government over its "failing" housing policy after recent news about homes in Dublin.

Completed housing developments have slowed down in Dublin, despite a recent report showing an increase in building in the surrounding counties.

Green Councillor Deirdre Ní Fhloinn has expressed concern over evidence people are "being pushed out of the capital".

Cllr Ní Fhloinn said: "It's no surprise that families are being pushed out of the Dublin suburbs when the Government has promoted a model of developer-led and designed mass housing that caters only for students and smaller households, and which is generally being built to rent only.

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"There are individuals and groups who would design their own communities differently if they could get access to land for people-centred housing that would cater for all ages and abilities. Instead the Government is proposing to aggregate public lands in the Land Development Agency and to use a substantial part of those lands for private development that will be unaffordable for many families. Even the so-called affordable rental proposed in my own county is well beyond what many households can pay. Dublin is becoming impossible to live in for the thousands of people on whom we all rely for our work, our schools, our healthcare, and our essential public supports such as Gardaí and teachers. Something has to give."

(CM/JG)