Will never vote for Sinn Fein, but what he’s proposing is very sensible. Good on him.
The magic bullet would be to also eliminate all taxes on residential development. Can’t understand why we’re taxing construction of new homes, which is all passed onto the end user.
The government grants for housing are extremely flawed also.
Contractors know the house owner is going to get apply for a government grant for renovation or thermal insulation, etc, for a few thousand euro. The contractor then gives a higher quote as they know there is more money available from the government grant. This causes price inflation.
What should be happening is the house owner pays for everything upfront and then gets a tax rebate at the end of the year. This would force contractors to price lower or the home owner won’t pay.
The government are driving prices up higher with their flawed grants, they are so incompetent and genuinely stupid people.
All it boils down to is wanting more houses.
Standard build houses is a good idea, I wish we would get on with that. Everything else though is pie in the sky because we *do not have enough construction workers*. Money and planning (although it’s painful) is not the problem when the industry is currently working flat out anyway. And I don’t see any of SFs other policies being likely to attract more people into the industry, the opposite probably given their proposals on tax and general inability to understand what motivates people to work.
I’ll caveat the below by saying what he’s saying is broadly sensible and there is no quick fix, so fair dues for actually admitting that and engaging in what’s sorely lacking in this country – long term planning.
As to the overall suggestion – hilarious given the manner in which SF go on as if these issues were solvable overnight if the government cared enough to even bother at all.
So yes, it will take a few years to solve so tell your party to quit pretending otherwise. FG/FF had more than enough time to fix it and they didn’t.
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Will never vote for Sinn Fein, but what he’s proposing is very sensible. Good on him.
The magic bullet would be to also eliminate all taxes on residential development. Can’t understand why we’re taxing construction of new homes, which is all passed onto the end user.
The government grants for housing are extremely flawed also.
Contractors know the house owner is going to get apply for a government grant for renovation or thermal insulation, etc, for a few thousand euro. The contractor then gives a higher quote as they know there is more money available from the government grant. This causes price inflation.
What should be happening is the house owner pays for everything upfront and then gets a tax rebate at the end of the year. This would force contractors to price lower or the home owner won’t pay.
The government are driving prices up higher with their flawed grants, they are so incompetent and genuinely stupid people.
All it boils down to is wanting more houses.
Standard build houses is a good idea, I wish we would get on with that. Everything else though is pie in the sky because we *do not have enough construction workers*. Money and planning (although it’s painful) is not the problem when the industry is currently working flat out anyway. And I don’t see any of SFs other policies being likely to attract more people into the industry, the opposite probably given their proposals on tax and general inability to understand what motivates people to work.
I’ll caveat the below by saying what he’s saying is broadly sensible and there is no quick fix, so fair dues for actually admitting that and engaging in what’s sorely lacking in this country – long term planning.
As to the overall suggestion – hilarious given the manner in which SF go on as if these issues were solvable overnight if the government cared enough to even bother at all.
So yes, it will take a few years to solve so tell your party to quit pretending otherwise. FG/FF had more than enough time to fix it and they didn’t.
Just copy the Finns.