Blaming Covid when construction sites remained open, design teams tended to remain working remotely with site visits where required. Private sector projects pushed ahead during this time. Try again.
Not sure how the war in Ukraine prevented the department from spending money on housing but then the minister wants to keep it deliberately vague. Otherwise it would suggest he didn’t do his job right.
Edit: looks like this comment is getting more critical analysis than the ministers decision not to use his budget in a crisis.
“figures also confirm the level of unspent monies earmarked for housing has rocketed in recent years, from €40m in 2019 to at least €340m last year.
It rose more than fivefold from 2019 to €227m in 2020, and then to €392m in 2021”
That’s interesting because they are usually quick to state how much they’ve increased their budget recently but the unspent amount has just increased as they have done that.
Seriously this country is run by absolute clowns
3000 houses could have been built with that money.
Okay, now defend the total lack of investment in everything else too…
They could have at least split that surplus to local authorities to build single units
A small cottage or house here and there built by a local builder, could at least get a family or two out of Emergency/Hap Rental accommodation if Gov was anyway capable had of used their heads a few months ago..
There are no excuses, lifting eviction ban too, its not acceptable and dont know how the usual lot keep trying to defend them
“Oh but covid”
“Oh Ukraine”
Fuckin greedy morons..
Where’s the bottle neck in using the money is my question? The article doesn’t say. Is it a problem with the civil servants?
Well of course we couldn’t build houses in Ireland, there’s a war in Ukraine which has severely restricted grain supplies.
Can you sue the government for saying they will do something and they dont do anything? If they are put in government and dont solve the housing problem can they get into trouble?
Only in Ireland!!!!!!!
Grotesque fucking cunt of a man.
Is there anything that can not surprised us anymore on how corrupted those guys are?
Any news about the housing is another proof that those guys have no idea on how to run a country/city!
I feel bad for Ireland, so much money came in from EU and we have no idea how it was spent, and where!
Jesus even with construction inflation they failed to spend what they said they would….. couldn’t make it up
The issue isn’t purely with spending, considering much of the spending goes towards the insane practice of councils buying private homes.
“Lets increase the population of Ireland through every means at our disposal- fuck Irish society theres profit to be had, and we can use GDP numbers to gaslight everyone”
“Lets keep the supply of housing static by every means at our disposal- fuck Irish society theres profit to be had, and we can use GDP numbers to gaslight everyone”
This is neither coincidental or accidental
Tell the owners of vacant properties to fix them up now for sale/rent or the gov buys them at a reduced rate.
Here’s the thing:
– Building boom
– Crash
– Most developers bankrupted/NAMA.
– Long Recession
–
– Rapid growth
– Covid
There is no developers in Ireland now. People say build houses. But not near me.
They block development of apartments. We have no 1 bed starter homes.
And Now people are sitting on land that the government sold them in a firesale.
We should just build a new city in the Midlands.
To be fair though, it’s not something that can be fixed overnight.
Let me guess, it was because sinn fein bought a mars bar for 1.20 and the pile of money in berties back garden is just the result of not having a bank account.
Gotta be outbidding those first time buyers with extra money to developers…
What do you mean build our own instead of throwing public money at the private sector dumpster fire?
Article also notes that we’ve increased spending from €4bn in 2019 to €6bn last year. That’s a 50% increase in four years. There’s bound to be some growing pains with that level of scaling up. Jaysus that’s a massive spend on housing.
It seems to be a…
– increase the amount for housing
– doesn’t spend it
– ok increases the amount for housing that we didn’t spend last year
– doesn’t spent it again and the amount brought forward from the previous year too
– and so on and so on
Which equals oh no we’ve underspent. While they haven’t actually increased building by that much or fixed up houses they own that need to be modernised. It all for show at this point.
Then it becomes oh its because we can’t find people to build for us because of worker shortages (i.e. not paying the working builders enough).
Whilst councils simultaneously refuse to build on land they own because of *insert ridiculously reason here*.
Almost like the issue is not money or “da guberment” but a lack of capacity in the building trades 🤷♂️
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Blaming Covid when construction sites remained open, design teams tended to remain working remotely with site visits where required. Private sector projects pushed ahead during this time. Try again.
Not sure how the war in Ukraine prevented the department from spending money on housing but then the minister wants to keep it deliberately vague. Otherwise it would suggest he didn’t do his job right.
Edit: looks like this comment is getting more critical analysis than the ministers decision not to use his budget in a crisis.
“figures also confirm the level of unspent monies earmarked for housing has rocketed in recent years, from €40m in 2019 to at least €340m last year.
It rose more than fivefold from 2019 to €227m in 2020, and then to €392m in 2021”
That’s interesting because they are usually quick to state how much they’ve increased their budget recently but the unspent amount has just increased as they have done that.
Seriously this country is run by absolute clowns
3000 houses could have been built with that money.
Okay, now defend the total lack of investment in everything else too…
They could have at least split that surplus to local authorities to build single units
A small cottage or house here and there built by a local builder, could at least get a family or two out of Emergency/Hap Rental accommodation if Gov was anyway capable had of used their heads a few months ago..
There are no excuses, lifting eviction ban too, its not acceptable and dont know how the usual lot keep trying to defend them
“Oh but covid”
“Oh Ukraine”
Fuckin greedy morons..
Where’s the bottle neck in using the money is my question? The article doesn’t say. Is it a problem with the civil servants?
Well of course we couldn’t build houses in Ireland, there’s a war in Ukraine which has severely restricted grain supplies.
Can you sue the government for saying they will do something and they dont do anything? If they are put in government and dont solve the housing problem can they get into trouble?
Only in Ireland!!!!!!!
Grotesque fucking cunt of a man.
Is there anything that can not surprised us anymore on how corrupted those guys are?
Any news about the housing is another proof that those guys have no idea on how to run a country/city!
I feel bad for Ireland, so much money came in from EU and we have no idea how it was spent, and where!
Jesus even with construction inflation they failed to spend what they said they would….. couldn’t make it up
The issue isn’t purely with spending, considering much of the spending goes towards the insane practice of councils buying private homes.
“Lets increase the population of Ireland through every means at our disposal- fuck Irish society theres profit to be had, and we can use GDP numbers to gaslight everyone”
“Lets keep the supply of housing static by every means at our disposal- fuck Irish society theres profit to be had, and we can use GDP numbers to gaslight everyone”
This is neither coincidental or accidental
Tell the owners of vacant properties to fix them up now for sale/rent or the gov buys them at a reduced rate.
Here’s the thing:
– Building boom
– Crash
– Most developers bankrupted/NAMA.
– Long Recession
–
– Rapid growth
– Covid
There is no developers in Ireland now. People say build houses. But not near me.
They block development of apartments. We have no 1 bed starter homes.
And Now people are sitting on land that the government sold them in a firesale.
We should just build a new city in the Midlands.
To be fair though, it’s not something that can be fixed overnight.
Let me guess, it was because sinn fein bought a mars bar for 1.20 and the pile of money in berties back garden is just the result of not having a bank account.
Gotta be outbidding those first time buyers with extra money to developers…
What do you mean build our own instead of throwing public money at the private sector dumpster fire?
Article also notes that we’ve increased spending from €4bn in 2019 to €6bn last year. That’s a 50% increase in four years. There’s bound to be some growing pains with that level of scaling up. Jaysus that’s a massive spend on housing.
It seems to be a…
– increase the amount for housing
– doesn’t spend it
– ok increases the amount for housing that we didn’t spend last year
– doesn’t spent it again and the amount brought forward from the previous year too
– and so on and so on
Which equals oh no we’ve underspent. While they haven’t actually increased building by that much or fixed up houses they own that need to be modernised. It all for show at this point.
Then it becomes oh its because we can’t find people to build for us because of worker shortages (i.e. not paying the working builders enough).
Whilst councils simultaneously refuse to build on land they own because of *insert ridiculously reason here*.
Almost like the issue is not money or “da guberment” but a lack of capacity in the building trades 🤷♂️
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You can register to vote if you are aged 16 or over, and will then become eligible to vote when you are 18.
To register, you’ll just need to provide:
your PPSN
your date of birth
your Eircode
The above are needed for your local authority to confirm your details.
That’s it! You’ll be ready to vote, should an election or referendum be called