The Government has set a target of building more than 300,000 homes by 2030. File image. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA
Uncertainty over construction projects is driving Ireland’s expertise to Europe and the UK instead, harming the State’s efforts to build up the domestic industry, a quantity surveying firm has said.
Buildcost, which has offices in Dublin and Letterkenny, Co Donegal, and works on projects nationwide, said Tuesday’s budget would be key to government efforts to ramp up homebuilding urgently before the housing crisis deepened.
The number of homeless people in the State climbed to a record in August, standi
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