Is the present FF/FG/GP government the worst in the history of the state?

Murph85

I would say they are as bad as they have always been. But this is decades in the making... obviously when you don't address things, they get worse... and worse...

Murph85

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121194870#Comment_121194870

I Half agree with this. It is still very difficult and more difficult than it should be. If you are single.. . Good luck. Neveremployedwasters getting prime location luxury housing. While workers live in kips for a fortune...

Murph85

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121199468#Comment_121199468

Nail on the head.. report after report. Public consultation after public consultation. Legal review after legal review. Conedy country. People have lost their patience after decades of this nonsense

Shoog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121233741#Comment_121233741

That will be the test of SF, but it's hysterical to claim they will drive big business away.

The issue with the current government is they are both in the pocket of property developer/speculator/landlords and they expect that those same businesses will build them out of the crisis simply by wishing it to happen.

None of this has escaped the public's notice.

Clo-Clo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121233691#Comment_121233691

SF are going to do what exactly to change it?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121233864#Comment_121233864

You need developers to build houses. The "speculators" are who exactly? Guess what you need landlords

It's all noise from Sinn Fein with zero answers.

Looking at their housing policy it's pure rubbish. Even with landlords the claim is they will drive landlords out to free up houses. What about all the people who want to rent?

More worrying is they want to instruct the Central Bank, that is not the job of the government to make demand to the Central Bank. The last thing Ireland needs is a government telling a regulator what they can/can't do.

Abolish of LPT would be a disaster as well for everyone in Ireland and we would go back to old days of no facilities in the area with county councils stripped of all their money. It is also a tax break for the people who have mansions.

Do people think this is the answer??

https://www.sinnfein.ie/housing-4

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121233788#Comment_121233788

and what exactly do you think Sinn Fein are going to do? what they are looking at is giving more houses to the never employed and tax the ass out of anyone who is working to pay for it.

Murph85

Literally the only thing that might make me believe sf would do anything about the housing crisis, is because the only thing they care about ultimately is irish unification. They might do something on the housing front , for that reason only ..

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121237068#Comment_121237068

What does that even mean? Build more houses in Ireland to house people who live north of the border?

The 2 are barely related, housing and unification.

Also FYI, unification would cost us so much money that there would be far less public funds available for investment in property.

Clo-Clo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121237068#Comment_121237068

Sinn Fein are responsible for housing in the North and it's a disaster. How would unification resolve either side of the border? instead we will just inherit a bigger issue in the North on top of the issues we have in the Republic

I don't see any reference to housing on Sinn Fein pages about unification. Have you seen anything?