Madam, - I see that Minister for the Environment John Gormley intends to expand the system of local authority loans to provide credit for first-time buyers. Let me take this opportunity to remind readers of one of the policies set out in the most recent Green Party manifesto.
This said that in government the Green Party would "progressively limit the amount of money that lending institutions can lend for house purchase in order to reduce the price of housing." (www.greenparty.ie/index.php/en/policies/housing).
I, for one, would like to hear the reasoning behind this abrupt policy reversal by Mr Gormley and the Green Party. - Yours, etc,
ROBERT MOLLOY,
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