House price inflation of 22.5%
The missing factor here is perhaps an absence of political will created by an abandonment of any foundational vision of what an independent Ireland might be.
Just more divisive talk
Plan commits to have the local authority distribution key in place before the end of December this year
If you knew Post-Everything Fianna Fáil less well, then you might get the impression that there was something other than desperation behind their latest appeal to the dwindling band of people who might vote for them. Their Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien has apparently written to the Catholic Primate of All Ireland Eamon Martin to suggest […]
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the current ruling coalition is throwing money away to the short term benefit of reducing housing lists, but to the long term gain of the investor funds,
Ireland has also witnessed the third highest increase in rents over the period between the first quarter of 2010
One of the metrics that charted the improvement in working people’s lives over the past century or more was the increase in home ownership. From a situation where most people lived in rented or otherwise non private accommodation, home ownership rose steadily in the western democracies to a situation where most people in most countries […]
Peadar Tóibín TD has read what he described as a “damning document” into the Dáil record in which he says it appears that the Government moved elderly patients “wholesale out of hospital beds and crammed them into nursing homes just as Covid hit the country”. Over 2,000 people died with Covid in Nursing Homes, but commentators […]
Senator Rónán Mullen (Ind) has said that Sinn Féin is acting to deliberately prolong the housing crisis for political gain. The comments were made during a recent Seanad discussion of the Land Development Agency Bill 2021. Senator Mullen said that there were “two primary reasons” for the failure of local authorities to address housing needs […]
Donegal and Mayo Mica protesters demonstrate outside the Convention Centre as thousands of homes at risk of collapse. #micaredress #gript