>”What I’m interested in is the housing issue and getting more houses built and getting them built faster” Mr Martin said. “We have made a quantum shift in housing but given the scale of the challenge in housing we have to do much more.”
I would love to see Martin define “quantum shift”, because fuck knows what he means by it here.
There has been no shift in getting houses built faster, in fact residential construction volumes are [back down to almost 2015 levels](https://i.imgur.com/wUvq6Ky.png). Martin likes to pick whichever figure he thinks makes him look good at any time, when completions are poor he talks about permissions, when permissions are down he’ll talk about commencements, and when commencements are down it’s about completions. None of it reflecting the reality that residential construction activity simply hasn’t grown at anything close to the rate it needs to, and indeed has failed wholly to recover after the pandemic.
When politicians advocate for the working class it’s called populism, when politicians advocate for industry it’s called lobbying
No prizes for guessing where Mícheál Martin lies on that spectrum
He was fond of the playing politics himself when he was in oppostion
How is not wanting people to end up on the street as a/the result of failures of successive governments including the one Micheal Martin is currently in “Playing politics?” Utterly ridiculous stuff and it shows just how far out of touch FF and FG are. No wonder (some!) people are turning to the far right.
Politicians playing politics you say?
Leo is out and about today claiming evictions are not really evictions
So by extension homeless people and Fr. Peter McVerry are just playing politics too. It’s all a game…or it is at least when it isn’t you on the street. For Martin that’s a very ill judged statement to make.
>We have made a quantum shift in housing but given the scale of the challenge in housing we have to do much more.”
From Google
>A quantum (plural: quanta) is the smallest discrete unit of a phenomenon.
So basically they made the smallest possible step
Now he might not for it to be interpreted like that but it’s certainly the way it appears
I think one overlooked positive from keeping the legislation would have been the institutional investors selling up. If some portion of their holdings wasn’t generating any revenue they would naturally sell it and put the money to work elsewhere. Or it would at least make them pause before buying another entire block of apartments.
We could have kept roofs over peoples heads and let the property market blow off some steam at the same time.
No fear of him losing his home fuck off for himself
Gobshite
He’s one slimy fuck, the money was just resting in my wife’s bank account
Oh no , what’s next footballers playing football
In his defence, he did make a point earlier in the week in that all parties are agreed the ban should be temporary, the only difference is when it should be lifted. The opposition were always going to play politics with it, regardless of the date set by the government.
Anyone know of another career where someone can accuse someone else of doing their job and it’s an insult.
I don’t think I remember a politician as condescending and irritating as mehaul
Politicians who are evicting people accusing Politicians who are fighting evictions of being Politicians. That is what our government resources are being put to work on right now. No worries then.
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*”****Tánaiste, playing politics****”*
Politicians playing politics… Jaysus
>”What I’m interested in is the housing issue and getting more houses built and getting them built faster” Mr Martin said. “We have made a quantum shift in housing but given the scale of the challenge in housing we have to do much more.”
I would love to see Martin define “quantum shift”, because fuck knows what he means by it here.
There has been no shift in getting houses built faster, in fact residential construction volumes are [back down to almost 2015 levels](https://i.imgur.com/wUvq6Ky.png). Martin likes to pick whichever figure he thinks makes him look good at any time, when completions are poor he talks about permissions, when permissions are down he’ll talk about commencements, and when commencements are down it’s about completions. None of it reflecting the reality that residential construction activity simply hasn’t grown at anything close to the rate it needs to, and indeed has failed wholly to recover after the pandemic.
When politicians advocate for the working class it’s called populism, when politicians advocate for industry it’s called lobbying
No prizes for guessing where Mícheál Martin lies on that spectrum
He was fond of the playing politics himself when he was in oppostion
How is not wanting people to end up on the street as a/the result of failures of successive governments including the one Micheal Martin is currently in “Playing politics?” Utterly ridiculous stuff and it shows just how far out of touch FF and FG are. No wonder (some!) people are turning to the far right.
Politicians playing politics you say?
Leo is out and about today claiming evictions are not really evictions
[Taoiseach criticises ‘use of language’ around ending of eviction ban (breakingnews.ie)](https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/taoiseach-criticises-use-of-language-around-ending-of-eviction-ban-1452740.html)
So by extension homeless people and Fr. Peter McVerry are just playing politics too. It’s all a game…or it is at least when it isn’t you on the street. For Martin that’s a very ill judged statement to make.
>We have made a quantum shift in housing but given the scale of the challenge in housing we have to do much more.”
From Google
>A quantum (plural: quanta) is the smallest discrete unit of a phenomenon.
So basically they made the smallest possible step
Now he might not for it to be interpreted like that but it’s certainly the way it appears
I think one overlooked positive from keeping the legislation would have been the institutional investors selling up. If some portion of their holdings wasn’t generating any revenue they would naturally sell it and put the money to work elsewhere. Or it would at least make them pause before buying another entire block of apartments.
We could have kept roofs over peoples heads and let the property market blow off some steam at the same time.
No fear of him losing his home fuck off for himself
Gobshite
He’s one slimy fuck, the money was just resting in my wife’s bank account
Oh no , what’s next footballers playing football
In his defence, he did make a point earlier in the week in that all parties are agreed the ban should be temporary, the only difference is when it should be lifted. The opposition were always going to play politics with it, regardless of the date set by the government.
Anyone know of another career where someone can accuse someone else of doing their job and it’s an insult.
I don’t think I remember a politician as condescending and irritating as mehaul
Politicians who are evicting people accusing Politicians who are fighting evictions of being Politicians. That is what our government resources are being put to work on right now. No worries then.
Go fuck yourself Tánaiste