Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the cost of almost 3,000 social homes which were to be delivered, and have now been delayed over value for money concerns, were so high that if they had gone ahead then the Minister for Housing would have been \"up before the Public Accounts Committee\".
The delivery of the homes was delayed after the minister pulled the plug on funding for a number of projects which were about to begin construction because of value for money concerns.
Social Democrats TD Rory Hearne has accused the Government of sabotaging its own housing strategy after 500 social homes were found to cost close to €1million each, and Deputy Hearne spoke to us this morning on The Agenda about this.
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