'It's not that young people are squandering their wages on avocado toast' - Fianna Fail leader pledges housing priorityHe made the pledge in a speech at the Ogra Fianna Fail National Youth Conference in Portlaoise tonight. Young people are being frozen out of the housing market and affordability has slipped further away from them. “The reason for this is not that young people are squandering their wages on avocado toast. That policy has created an affordability crisis that reaches deep into every community but impacts upon young people the hardest,” he said. “Opening up greater opportunities for home ownership and secure, affordable tenancies for young people is a vital part of that.

Source: Irish Independent November 16, 2019 19:52 UTC