What’s the number now, do we know? Closer to 50,000 a year?
So they could actually build houses overnight.
Knew it.
Well enough people keep voting for them so why change what’s been working for them
They just need another term, and then they’ll definitely fix it.
There were attempts in 2014/15 to do rapid-build housing.
I don’t know, and can’t easily find out, what specifically went wrong with that that it was basically dropped stone dead after the 2016 election. Cost? Not actually that quick? That surreal hodgepodge of a Government after 2016 not wanting to build public housing?
All of the above?
What’s the source for the Varadkar and Rabbitte quotes? I googled them but couldn’t find anything.
I am still shocked they (having known the scale of problems), let the situation get so bad. It was a problem long before this. The government is still unprepared for the problems a housing shortage is creating.
The night is dark, and full of tents
It has been a very long night… can we wake up from this nightmare now?
Its like the way anything done as temporary emergency measure is always a permanent change they’ve planned for years.
2014 saw ~7500 units completed
2023 saw ~32500 units completed
On the right track. People are quick to forget the numbers of people who left during the recession, majority of which were trades people employed in the building of houses. We are still paying for this knowledge gap today. For years, no one new entered the trades, and people just left as there was no work.
2014 was a lovely time to be alive in Ireland so it was
Time to say good night to the clowns
Couldn’t trust them at all. I find it absolutely hilarious FG are in full manipulation mode on their socials.
Absolute sociopaths and very clearly gaslighting the public as they scrap to reverse their fuck ups coming up to the election.
Seen a video yesterday from a Councillor talking about anti social behaviour and reporting it as he stood outside Stepaside Garda Station. A station they had closed for many years amongst loads of others.
FG couldn’t run a bath. Unfortunately they probably are the best of a very bad lot. We have so many intelligent and ethical folks in this country, its a pity none of them find their way onto politics.
Anyone have the political buzzword stats for “overnight” for 2014?
After the financial crash, the construction industry collapsed and everyone left the country. Who did everyone expect would build those houses overnight?
To say nothing of the public outcry for planning regulations and standards improvements to avoid the errors of the Celtic Tiger era.
You put those two things together, it’s like trying to run through mud.
Overdecade
I’m gonna say it, if you vote FF or FG in the next election you are a fucking moron.
What would it take to convert all the empty office buildings to apartments?
Pricks
Happy anniversary everyone
This country is an ongoing disgrace in terms of housing & taxation. Greed is good it seems
The problem is obvious: how do they get away with such obvious manipulative drivel? Ofc there’s client media involved.
But we let them is the answer. And 40% of the electorate wants them to continue with this apparently. But a lot of older traditional FFG voters aren’t rich or landlords. They feel beholden to the TD who wrote a letter, to the TD who supposedly got the road fixed, to the myth that Collins and Dev have a lot to do with modern FFG. Only a grassroots new generation movement going door to door with a “bread and butter” agenda for the 26 county state will turn it around.
And SF is not the answer to anything except entangling us more in the money swallow hole that is NI.
It’s not just building homes, but building them for normal buyers, not for venture capital sharks… Most of the apartment buildings that are being built around my area are all bought by these sharks.
It’s the business behind that govt are targeting, and low supply with big demand gives them more profit.
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>We need 25,000 to 30,000 houses per annum.
What’s the number now, do we know? Closer to 50,000 a year?
So they could actually build houses overnight.
Knew it.
Well enough people keep voting for them so why change what’s been working for them
They just need another term, and then they’ll definitely fix it.
There were attempts in 2014/15 to do rapid-build housing.
I don’t know, and can’t easily find out, what specifically went wrong with that that it was basically dropped stone dead after the 2016 election. Cost? Not actually that quick? That surreal hodgepodge of a Government after 2016 not wanting to build public housing?
All of the above?
What’s the source for the Varadkar and Rabbitte quotes? I googled them but couldn’t find anything.
I am still shocked they (having known the scale of problems), let the situation get so bad. It was a problem long before this. The government is still unprepared for the problems a housing shortage is creating.
The night is dark, and full of tents
It has been a very long night… can we wake up from this nightmare now?
Its like the way anything done as temporary emergency measure is always a permanent change they’ve planned for years.
2014 saw ~7500 units completed
2023 saw ~32500 units completed
On the right track. People are quick to forget the numbers of people who left during the recession, majority of which were trades people employed in the building of houses. We are still paying for this knowledge gap today. For years, no one new entered the trades, and people just left as there was no work.
2014 was a lovely time to be alive in Ireland so it was
Time to say good night to the clowns
Couldn’t trust them at all. I find it absolutely hilarious FG are in full manipulation mode on their socials.
Absolute sociopaths and very clearly gaslighting the public as they scrap to reverse their fuck ups coming up to the election.
Seen a video yesterday from a Councillor talking about anti social behaviour and reporting it as he stood outside Stepaside Garda Station. A station they had closed for many years amongst loads of others.
FG couldn’t run a bath. Unfortunately they probably are the best of a very bad lot. We have so many intelligent and ethical folks in this country, its a pity none of them find their way onto politics.
Anyone have the political buzzword stats for “overnight” for 2014?
After the financial crash, the construction industry collapsed and everyone left the country. Who did everyone expect would build those houses overnight?
To say nothing of the public outcry for planning regulations and standards improvements to avoid the errors of the Celtic Tiger era.
You put those two things together, it’s like trying to run through mud.
Overdecade
I’m gonna say it, if you vote FF or FG in the next election you are a fucking moron.
What would it take to convert all the empty office buildings to apartments?
Pricks
Happy anniversary everyone
This country is an ongoing disgrace in terms of housing & taxation. Greed is good it seems
The problem is obvious: how do they get away with such obvious manipulative drivel? Ofc there’s client media involved.
But we let them is the answer. And 40% of the electorate wants them to continue with this apparently. But a lot of older traditional FFG voters aren’t rich or landlords. They feel beholden to the TD who wrote a letter, to the TD who supposedly got the road fixed, to the myth that Collins and Dev have a lot to do with modern FFG. Only a grassroots new generation movement going door to door with a “bread and butter” agenda for the 26 county state will turn it around.
And SF is not the answer to anything except entangling us more in the money swallow hole that is NI.
It’s not just building homes, but building them for normal buyers, not for venture capital sharks… Most of the apartment buildings that are being built around my area are all bought by these sharks.
It’s the business behind that govt are targeting, and low supply with big demand gives them more profit.
Enda Kenny is the Saul Goodman of taoiseachs