A recent report on housing in Ireland came up with the startling figure that just 28% of homes built in 2021 were available to ‘ordinary’ purchasers. In that year, most houses and apartments were snapped up by foreign investor funds – kindly assisted by tax breaks from the Irish state – and various social housing […]
“The government isn’t thinking this through.”
“Protect Irish families”
The Government has the tools, if it sees migrant numbers as a problem, to reduce them.
The Housing Minister, Darragh O’Brien, has said that recent rise in the number of people homeless in Ireland is partly driven by economic migrants arriving in Ireland without accommodation. The Minister told the On The Record podcast on Newstalk that economic migrants were coming to Ireland from both the European Economic Area and outside that […]
Let’s be honest then and face the fact that there is little chance that the expected demand for new housing is going to be met.
“‘What about our own?”
The Irish Government has neither the duty, nor the right, to damage the interests of its own people to advance the cause of another.
Depleted.
Families lose out, again.
Everybody knows the policy is a disaster; Everybody is afraid to say it.
According to a government briefing, if Ireland accepts 200,000 Ukrainian refugees it could cost billions annually. Today at a briefing on the potential cost of accommodating Ukrainian refugees, Ministers were told that the State could pay €400m per year for every 10,000 people taken in, or €2.5 billion for 100,000. However, the government has already […]