Ireland’s housing crisis ‘on a different level’ with population growing at nearly four people for every new home built

Shocker, same story with schools, hospitals, GPs ,prisons. Somebody is stuffing their pockets


Ah stop It’s fine, keep bringing more people into the country. 


Oh, Ireland. You’ve got plenty of money and land. You don’t have enough skilled tradesmen & builders, you can’t get planning permission to build anything, and the tax system punishes people for selling their big empty house and rewards people for holding on to their houses till they die. You have too many people who would rather riot about immigrants than work building houses. It’s a tough set of challenges.

The elephant in the room is slowly being talked about, but the conversation needs to be happening much faster and with more honesty.

The situation is just not sustainable, there are already tens of thousands of people waiting for public housing at the moment and tens of thousands more that will join that list in the years ahead best units are being built at a rate that doesn’t even reach demand.

The demand side of that equation is what needs attention. Immigration from non-EU countries is a major source of demand growth. This needs to be greatly reduced and subject to the strongest work permits.

People who have historically failed asylum claims should be deported forcibly. Also this rubbish of the gardai sending a person a letter telling someone to leave the state needs to stop. These people should be brought to the airport or ferry terminal by immigration.

And it’s about a lot more than just housing, our public services are under severe pressure, resources like education, health, et cetera are finite and extra demands make things worse for all.

People often wonder about the hellholes people are fleeing here from, culturally regressive, politically regressive, religiously regressive with views towards things like homosexuality or women’s rights that we would balk at. What happens to the landscape of this country as more and more of the percentage of the people here were born overseas and raised with these feelings. It’s not like they totally abandoned them at the airport.

And as more and more people come over and I got older extended family or whatnot is that likely to create a situation where the younger people had to save face with the older people by not criticising these views and to a certain extent excepting them.

The government and the infrastructure of bureaucrats around it was appointed at great expense by the Irish public to look after and a minister there affairs according to their best interests. The problems of the rest of the world are for the rest of the world, we can’t or shouldn’t deal with them.

I don’t know where it’s all going to end but I think the dam is starting to crack.

Keep voting FG and FF!