‘Spend and save’ budget
For Green activists, this is the kind of win you get when you elect your team.
There is currently an apartment for sale in the block I rent. The asking price is €375,000. Here is where I am thinking about an unconventional solution.
A banking crisis Unfolding?
“Incredible.”
‘Far right’ accusations ‘totally unfair’
“We have international obligations”: Irish Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien refuses to say whether Ireland can accept another 100,000 asylum seekers, while Minister Paschal Donohoe says “we will find the money” to support asylum seekers despite “challenges.” #gript
There are big questions, I think, to be asked of Ireland’s economic model and the kind of society it has produced.
A government that is block buying homes out from under its own working citizens in order to give those homes to non-working citizens is sending a message.
The Minister for Housing is, like the whalers of yore, a sudden convert to the cause of conservation:
Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien defends asylum seekers voting in local elections, saying that they should “have a say in relation to local democracy.” Question by Ben Scallan. #gript
“Measures need to be introduced as a matter of priority.”