The Housing Minister moved to distance himself and his department from the ‘Moving in with Family’ video after it was pilloried online last month,

Mr Browne said the plan was about ‘activating supply, but also supporting people’.

The Housing Minister said he did not disagree with what the Tánaiste said, but could not predict what house prices would do

O'Brien also claims more than 33,500 homes will be completed by the end of the year.