Two weeks ago, Fianna Fáil government negotiator Barry Cowen told The Business Post that a key part of the proposed Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael plan to tackle the housing crisis would be to lease properties from private developers for 100 years. The proposal is one of the most bizarre to come from Fianna Fáil in some time. Their housing spokesperson Darragh O’Brien has spent the last two years criticising Fine Gael’s housing plan, Rebuilding Ireland, for its over-reliance on the private market and prioritising Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) subsidies to private landlords rather than direct build of social houses by local…

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