Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Lowry supporters – would ye like to comment? This is what you’re willing to stand over?
Labour supporters, your party helped start this crisis, still defending taking the soft targets to bail out banks?
Jesus lads what the fuck is happening and how in the name of God are politicians getting away with it? Like what do we do?
Such a sad situation.
A great movie that addresses the homeless/housing crisis in Ireland is Rosie with Sarah Greene. Had me balling my eyes out.
Well, they’ve tried doing nothing and it hasn’t worked!
Laissez-faire economics seems to be dogma here.
Nothing to see here. Move along there now.
Signed
Your local
FFG TD
The more that come in, the more homeless there will be. Can’t possibly keep up with the numbers by building houses that need to be paid for by the taxpayer. If you could house them all, the numbers would multiply 10 fold and be in a worse situation.
All the usual government cheerleaders will be noticeably absent from this thread no doubt, thoroughly incapable of dealing with the actual consequences of FFG’s catastrophic housing policies.
ahhh lads.
We literally cannot do anything right on this island.
We’ve set a grim new record in this every month for the past 5 years. Go us.
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I work in the sector and can assure you all that despite this horrifying news, absolutely nothing is being done by our government about it. And likely, nothing will be done. My experience with govt figures on the issue is that they’re actually quite annoyed and put out by the crisis – it’s embarrassing for them as careerists, that’s as far as it seems to go.
Our government do not care, and it’s almost good that they’ve kinda stopped even pretending to. We need to see them for what they are and act accordingly in the next election. Voting out FF/FG won’t solve the problem wholly but it’ll at the very least boot out those who engineered it then did nothing other than prosper as people suffered.
5,000 children without a fixed home means 5,000 children who are very likely experiencing trauma, shame, embarrassment and a sense of instability that will foster itself into their mental health now and as they grow up.
For a lot of these kids, it’ll likely carry a cycle of homelessness for them that they get stuck into for their entire adult lives. This is really beyond devastating.
A hotel is no place to spend your childhood.
Shock? To who exactly? The same papers that quake at the thought of us voting for anyone but the same parties steering this endless upward spiral? I am not shocked whatsoever. I and won’t be shocked when it hits 6,000 either.
And the Irish people don’t mind because they keep voting in the two incompetent parties over and over again expecting change. The government won’t do anything about it until they start loosing votes.
Keep that population booming. Demand is irrelevant as we have learned from the illustrious armchair economists on Reddit. Let’s max out our GDP , population growth, hospital waiting lists and child homelessness figures. Go team Ireland.
The vacant houses are f@cked and likely need to be rebuilt at greater expense than a new build. Nobody is blaming foreigners for government ineptitude but the reality is people seeing asylum in this country are just adding to an already dire housing mess. The EU says we should house them all, meanwhile Irish children are homeless in record numbers. You can’t square that circle. This is no country for the vulnerable.
They’re doing this because people have and will continue to be voting for them.
Can we have a new government, please? One that deals with
* housing
* health
* active transport
* care, including
* creches?
People seem to love this.
They continue to vote the people responsible for it back into government.
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Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Lowry supporters – would ye like to comment? This is what you’re willing to stand over?
Labour supporters, your party helped start this crisis, still defending taking the soft targets to bail out banks?
Jesus lads what the fuck is happening and how in the name of God are politicians getting away with it? Like what do we do?
Such a sad situation.
A great movie that addresses the homeless/housing crisis in Ireland is Rosie with Sarah Greene. Had me balling my eyes out.
Well, they’ve tried doing nothing and it hasn’t worked!
Laissez-faire economics seems to be dogma here.
Nothing to see here. Move along there now.
Signed
Your local
FFG TD
The more that come in, the more homeless there will be. Can’t possibly keep up with the numbers by building houses that need to be paid for by the taxpayer. If you could house them all, the numbers would multiply 10 fold and be in a worse situation.
All the usual government cheerleaders will be noticeably absent from this thread no doubt, thoroughly incapable of dealing with the actual consequences of FFG’s catastrophic housing policies.
ahhh lads.
We literally cannot do anything right on this island.
We’ve set a grim new record in this every month for the past 5 years. Go us.
[removed]
I work in the sector and can assure you all that despite this horrifying news, absolutely nothing is being done by our government about it. And likely, nothing will be done. My experience with govt figures on the issue is that they’re actually quite annoyed and put out by the crisis – it’s embarrassing for them as careerists, that’s as far as it seems to go.
Our government do not care, and it’s almost good that they’ve kinda stopped even pretending to. We need to see them for what they are and act accordingly in the next election. Voting out FF/FG won’t solve the problem wholly but it’ll at the very least boot out those who engineered it then did nothing other than prosper as people suffered.
5,000 children without a fixed home means 5,000 children who are very likely experiencing trauma, shame, embarrassment and a sense of instability that will foster itself into their mental health now and as they grow up.
For a lot of these kids, it’ll likely carry a cycle of homelessness for them that they get stuck into for their entire adult lives. This is really beyond devastating.
A hotel is no place to spend your childhood.
Shock? To who exactly? The same papers that quake at the thought of us voting for anyone but the same parties steering this endless upward spiral? I am not shocked whatsoever. I and won’t be shocked when it hits 6,000 either.
And the Irish people don’t mind because they keep voting in the two incompetent parties over and over again expecting change. The government won’t do anything about it until they start loosing votes.
Keep that population booming. Demand is irrelevant as we have learned from the illustrious armchair economists on Reddit. Let’s max out our GDP , population growth, hospital waiting lists and child homelessness figures. Go team Ireland.
The vacant houses are f@cked and likely need to be rebuilt at greater expense than a new build. Nobody is blaming foreigners for government ineptitude but the reality is people seeing asylum in this country are just adding to an already dire housing mess. The EU says we should house them all, meanwhile Irish children are homeless in record numbers. You can’t square that circle. This is no country for the vulnerable.
They’re doing this because people have and will continue to be voting for them.
Can we have a new government, please? One that deals with
* housing
* health
* active transport
* care, including
* creches?
People seem to love this.
They continue to vote the people responsible for it back into government.
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