‘A hot meal would cost me €20’
The vast majority of council tenants pay their rent anyway, because they are responsible citizens. Some, though, just do not. And, as the figures make clear, they get away with it.
This is – and I’m talking here about the tweet, not the policy – about as transparent an attempt to stir up social discord as you’ll ever come across.
posts in question refer to the opening of 118 ‘cost rental homes’
I have come to an inescapable conclusion about seeking public office in Ireland in recent years: You’d have to be an utter fool to do it.
Dwelling seized
Rent controls and their effects have never been a secret: In every country, and every city, where they have ever been introduced, the impact has been disastrous.
If we had a functioning political left in this country, one that actually cared about the working people and deprived people that it pretends to represent, Saturday’s protest would have been much bigger.
Blogger Conor Finn
The ESRI reports that the share of young Irish people who own their homes has fallen by more than half, from 60% to 27%.
Anyway, it wouldn’t work in Ireland. First, you’d never get planning permission
“[Irish people] have the right to be frustrated.”