It’s so funny that 10 days ago in an update to investors, Cairn Homes, one of the signees of this threat, was reporting how great 2026 is looking to them: high demand, low building inflation (1%) and supportive government policies. [https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/0120/1554028-cairn-homes-trading-update/](https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/0120/1554028-cairn-homes-trading-update/)
See how the script flips from “everything is great” to “freak the fuck out and panic” depending on whether they talk to investors or government ministers.
The new rental reforms are a complete fudge – delivering the bare minimum for renters to not be evicted for no reason, but letting landlords increase rents at much faster rates. Even this isn’t enough for the building barons and now they’re throwing their weight around to sweeten the deal even further.
We need to have a state building company to remove this unnecessary lobbying from the system and get on with building. They are making so much money and it will never be enough for them.
Servile bought and paid~for government ministers should know better by now than to be spouting~out half~baked insincere and unrealistic sound~bites, ostensibly aimed at the public gallery: Notions which might be interpreted as jeopardising the power and profits of the Government’s *developer~masters*.. Back in your lane, Browne… Back in your lane, Harris!
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It’s so funny that 10 days ago in an update to investors, Cairn Homes, one of the signees of this threat, was reporting how great 2026 is looking to them: high demand, low building inflation (1%) and supportive government policies. [https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/0120/1554028-cairn-homes-trading-update/](https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/0120/1554028-cairn-homes-trading-update/)
See how the script flips from “everything is great” to “freak the fuck out and panic” depending on whether they talk to investors or government ministers.
The new rental reforms are a complete fudge – delivering the bare minimum for renters to not be evicted for no reason, but letting landlords increase rents at much faster rates. Even this isn’t enough for the building barons and now they’re throwing their weight around to sweeten the deal even further.
We need to have a state building company to remove this unnecessary lobbying from the system and get on with building. They are making so much money and it will never be enough for them.
Servile bought and paid~for government ministers should know better by now than to be spouting~out half~baked insincere and unrealistic sound~bites, ostensibly aimed at the public gallery: Notions which might be interpreted as jeopardising the power and profits of the Government’s *developer~masters*.. Back in your lane, Browne… Back in your lane, Harris!