Housing remains the number one challenge for the Government but despite record investment, the outlook is poor.
This leaves just 18 months to make a difference - a challenge deemed impossible by one Cabinet member who confided recently that the complicated jigsaw of policy responses will not turn the tide. It hasn’t gone unnoticed either that overall coalition support has received a bounce in various opinion polls and this has been ascribed to the largesse of recent months.Deployment of the massive €4bn annual investment under Housing for All may not be enough.The bigger issue, though, is that money alone cannot solve the problem.Homelessness figures reaching new monthly highs, house prices still climbing and too few houses are being built.
The Government is attempting to bridge that gap with various schemes including the €450m Croí Cónaithe fund to support the development of apartments in cities.But the upshot is that while 2022’s target of 24,600 new homes will be exceeded, the targets for 2023 and 2024 are unlikely to be met. Enterprise Minister Simon Coveney reportedly expanded on this at one Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting.
sandra_hurley irelands a wash with money the government toke in i don't know how much billion in taxes, and theres a housing crisis, homeless crisis, a crisis in the HSE, rents are out of out of this world, social housing waiting lists are beyond a joke, poverty is ripe, government policy?
sandra_hurley Totally, Trillion percent, building is slowing down 👎🤬
sandra_hurley Of course it is we need Sinn Fein in, Fianna Fáil or Fianna Gael do not care bout the Irish people only filling their own pockets
sandra_hurley As gen public how much more of these hopeless discussions on radio tv can we take I wonder..can any party this stage sort out the multifarious intractable probs besieging the State & growing by the hour? Is it gone too far out of control, Capitalisms maelstrom& global pressures
sandra_hurley Of course we could cap immigration but that would be to obvious of a solution.
sandra_hurley That would be the 200,000 immigrants in one year
sandra_hurley The housing minister is only one step away from the pond. Totally useless waste of space and should be sacked
sandra_hurley IrelandisFull
sandra_hurley Don't worry sinnfeinireland has the solution.😏
sandra_hurley “This time it’s different” - the most dangerous words for an investor 😅
sandra_hurley But you will not address the elephant in the room instead your calling the Irish people right wing bigots
sandra_hurley I suppose that's what happens when you flood the country with unlimited amounts of ILLEGAL unvetted fakeugee spongers that are fleeing 'war zones' and 'climate change'. A plantation caused by rodericogorman HMcEntee and the rest of the corrupt political parasites.
sandra_hurley Depends who you talk with really. I wonder if Mr English has the same opinion within the FG party
sandra_hurley Record investment from Tax avoiding vultures.
sandra_hurley And yet 'unlimited' immigration. Makes sense.
sandra_hurley How can the anti Irish open borders puppet government solve the housing crisis when they are encouraging large numbers of migrants into the country on the promise of free housing while at the same time neglecting the homeless Irish and the young irish who will never afford a home
Housing is always an issue during a plantation.
sandra_hurley 100,000 came here in less than two years. 30,000 more per year for our 2050 target. Where do we put another 3 or 4 million houses for another 5 million people? Surely the lefties have a comprehensive, well thought out plan?
sandra_hurley Overpriced and Overrated. Ireland Thinks its 3rd World but can't match it on housing and infrastructure.
sandra_hurley Dont worry, solution is on its way with the decimation of the population
sandra_hurley It doesn't matter how much you invest if you try to house the world.
sandra_hurley And the minister for housing passed a no confidence vote with relative ease. This country is very much 'us' and 'them'. I can be fired for getting very small things wrong but these guys have free reign to do whatever they like with no accountability.
sandra_hurley Irish need not apply 😑
sandra_hurley Simon Coveneys brother Rory runs RTE. That's why FF and FG get soft headlines like this one. After years of failed policies both parties have run out of excuses and spin. They've destroyed the housing market in Ireland