Housing from a green party perspective:
Green Party hold public meeting
'A Home of Your Own'
8pm Tuesday 23 January 2007

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What: The Green Party is hosting a public ideas meeting on making
housing available and affordable in Dublin

When: 8pm Tuesday 23 January 2007

Where: Cultivate Centre, Essex Street West, Templebar, Dublin

Who: Ciar�n Cuffe TD (Green Party)
Green Party's Environment & Housing spokesperson
Prof P.J. Drudy ( Trinity College Dublin)
Co-author of Out of Reach - Inequalities in the
Irish Housing System
Bernard McNamara (Property developer)
Managing Director of Michael McNamara Builders, one
of Ireland's top property developers
Jim Power (Friends First)
Chief Economist with Friends First and former Chief
Economist at Bank of Ireland
Cllr Bill Randall ( Brighton Green Party)
Founder editor of Inside Housing in the UK, UK's
Housing Journalist of the Year 2000

Details: House prices in Dublin South East, Dublin South and Dun
Laoghaire are among the highest in the country. Green Party TDs Ciar�n
Cuffe, John Gormley and Eamon Ryan are jointly hosting a public meeting to
discuss ideas and solutions on how to tackle the housing crisis faced by
first-time buyers and others in need of housing. A host of experts will
debate the crisis and take questions from the floor.