blackwhite wrote: Blantant lying to claim I posted something very different tells us exactly what sort you are though. Keep it classy
Chewbacca wrote: » A person who owns a house should be able to do what they want with it. If they want to leave it empty, so what.
pjohnson wrote: » Jaysus, one must be awful thick to buy a house they dont want to live in NOR make money on :pac:
Hitman3000 wrote: » You've referred to people which included children ,that took part in a protest as scum. It's not me tbh that needs to be classy.
Deleted User wrote: » I've voted for every party in this state (bar Renua & the PDs) in elections down the years. Sad you would attempt to portray what was a cordial exchange of opinions via PMs as something else entirely and to do it in a public forum too.
Seth Brundle wrote: What percentage of prime vacant sites will be developed within 18 months of the introduction of this tax?
Captain Obvious wrote: » What if they are just trying to get money together to do it up but have fallen on tight times?
hatrickpatrick wrote: » https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/remembering-herbert-simms-the-man-who-rebuilt-dublin-1.3447370Simms sized upon the political good will and became the driving force behind a large-scale programme of housing construction, which dramatically expanded, and in some cases led, to the creation of new suburbs for Dublin. “He was a quiet unassuming man who was able to achieve big things and drive forward a really ambitious housing programme in the 1930s which involved large scale housing schemes in the suburbs. Places like Crumlin most of Cabra built under his watch,” McManus says. The development of the Garden suburb, taken from the Garden City model which emerged in Britain towards the end of the previous century, was an easy sell in the Irish context and the new “corpo house” was popular, but Simms had more ambitious, and more controversial projects in mind to solve the city’s housing crises with the construction of flats. “Flats were a new solution very much inspired by what going on other parts of Europe. Simms realised not everybody would be able to afford to more to a suburban location and a lot of people needed to live in the city centre close to their place of work.” Many of the schemes Simms got to work on, Pearse House on Townsend Street, Chancery Place near the four courts and Marrowbone Lane, off Cork Street, remain occupied today. Part of the reason theses flats still stand while later schemes of the 1950s to the 1970s have already been demolished, is the quality of their construction and the thought put into their architecture and their setting, architectural historian Dr Ellen Rowley says. I simply do not accept, and neither do many prominent commentators today, that something we achieved easily in the early 20th century with all of the problems that we and the rest of Europe had at that time, is impossible to achieve today. All it requires is for the firewall of neoliberalism to crack.
hatrickpatrick wrote: » Let's imagine we had actually introduced water charges. Would you have been making this argument during the drought earlier this summer - "we're paying directly for how much water we use, so people should be able do what they want with it" - and therefore opposed a measure such as the hosepipe ban, designed to conserve it in a time of crisis?
Chewbacca wrote: A person who owns a house should be able to do what they want with it. If they want to leave it empty, so what.
blackwhite wrote: » At the time I’d have thought that was what it was as well, even if I thought it very odd to receive a message about another poster.From what I’ve seen since it’s made me wonder about the motivation tbh
Deleted User wrote: » Eh? I haven't been in this thread for a few days. Today you referred to these protesters on O'Connell St bridge as 'scumbags'. I thought your opinion re this (as did others) as objectionable and responded as I did. Its you who attempted to make it personal with all the stuff about PMs, cults etc.
Hitman3000 wrote: » The law? which section of the law allows the guards baton charge and teargas protestors?
Hitman3000 wrote: » I would tend to agree with you if we were not in the middle of a housing crisis. Use it or pay for the privilege of it sitting idle.
Hitman3000 wrote: » Genuine action from the government instead of just lip service about the homeless/housing issue.
pjohnson wrote: » Eh would they not be smart enough to ensure they had enough money to do it up? Or buy a house that doesnt need such expensive doing up?
Yer Da sells Avon wrote: » They should have to apply for planning permission to leave it vacant, providing some kind of timescale as to when they might be able to do something with it.
All Seeing Eye wrote: Hold on until I get my law books out. They’ve used force plenty of times before to remove unauthorised sit down protests from the streets especially in Dublin.
Chewbacca wrote: Why should a private citizen with an empty property be subjected to another bollox tax just because the Government failed?
Chewbacca wrote: » Nothing about being "thick". I know a couple who own a house here and in another country, they spend a few months here and a few months there. I know a guy who emigrated and owns a house here, it is being cared for by relatives until he returns. Im sure there are also more reasons houses are legitimately empty and it really doesnt matter why either.
Seth Brundle wrote: » Landlords are leaving the rental business in favour of AirBnB because of the hassle from a cohort of tenants who are protected by poor legislation.
Guy:Incognito wrote: Was there not a housing authority set up last week with the aim of building **** load of houses? I suppose none were built this week so that can be written off as a failure?
Brendan Bendar wrote: » Zzzzzzzzz. …………………same old same old We want everything but we don’t want to pay for it. Water charges mark 2.
pjohnson wrote: » Are you not the lad who falls over yourself championing Trade Unions when the bus drivers get the annual strike?
Hitman3000 wrote: » They have used batons on students who occupied an office and caught serious flak for it. You can call for baton charges and teargas all you want but the force has to be proportionate to the actions of the protest.
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