Chambers held apartment data that would have changed the election result – Doherty

Minister Jack Chambers “deliberately deceived” the public during the election campaign by ignoring apartment data, said a sense.

The party's financial spokesman, Pearse Doherty, said that if information about new home builds had been published, this would have changed the result of the election.

A spokesman for Mr. Chambers, who is now a minister of public expenses, said he rejected Mr. Doherty's claims.

The high -ranking government numbers were criticized for claims during the election campaign that almost 40,000 new houses would be built in 2024.

The housing for all tarpaulins set a target of 33,450 new born for 2024, from which, according to the Central Statistics Office (CSO), a total of 30,330 were built-a decline from 6.7% to 2023.

On Thursday about the Leinster House Socorth, Doherty claimed that a document from the Department of Household and Economic Department of the Ministry of Finance showed that the government had “deliberately decided to lead the Irish public of Irish public”.

He said that Mr. Chambers – the then finance minister – was dissolved on November 8 on November 8, in which the data for housing was analyzed.

The seven -sided report says that 21,634 new houses were completed in the first nine months of the year, which was 3.1% lower than in the same period 2023.

“The failure for the degrees, on the whole, seems to be in line with the recent downward regulations of the forecasts of the Central Bank, which correspond to the production edition of 2023,” it said.

Mr. Doherty said the report of the department for budget & economics from his department made it “very clear” that he was “unavailable” to reach 40,000 new buildings by the end of the year.

“Nevertheless, we left the finance minister on the national broadcaster in Virgin Media, in other radio stations on the way to 40,000 on the way that they would deliver far more houses than in the previous year, which was simply untrue,” said the Donegal TD.

“Why did he deliberately mislead the Irish public? Why does he bury a report he had from his department in which it is said that the prediction was that they would deliver the same, if not fewer houses than in the previous year?

“Why did he allow Micheal Martin, his party leader, to continue to outdo the same falsehood? Why did he allow the Taoiseach and others the same? “

When asked whether he believed that the publication of the housing figures had changed the result of the election, Mr. Doherty said: “If you have a report that comes out the evening before and the minister has to get up and say:“ The officials in my department are the same view as the central bank, and we will probably deliver fewer houses than we have.

A spokesman for Mr. Chambers said: “The finance minister receives a monthly housing update that summarizes reports, projections and publications in the public sector.

“The submission of November 2024 referred to CSO data published on October 24, 2024, and earlier forecasts of the central bank.

“This information was not new. The CSO data was published two weeks earlier and discussed on the day of publication in the Dail.

“The minister was already aware of this contribution by the CSO and the central bank.

“Minister Chambers rejects Deputy Doherty's claims. There were many different bodies and agencies that delivered different projections to the apartment numbers at that time. “

Taoiseach, Mr. Martin, said in Washington DC and said that his understanding of the problem was that the CSO statistics were already publicly known.

He added that there were three other signs that the number of new building houses in 2024 would be much higher than them.

“But the end result is that we don't build as many houses as soon as possible,” he said.

“There are fundamental problems with the apartment.

“I repeat what I have said since the foundation of this government: that it is very real to improve and increase the investments of the private sector in housing and in particular on the living side, and the government will work on developing the best guidelines that can do this.

“On the whole, the state is the big player on the real estate market, not only in terms of recognized housing companies or local authorities or the country development agency, but also in terms of financing mechanisms.

“I think the financing costs for the structure are too high, and that's why we also have to look at this problem, and then I said earlier that we have to work with the commercial banks that have to be more involved in making more money available to the builders to build more effectively because it is a major problem.”