Family of seven sleep in Garda station Mod note post one

23-09-2018 09:42AM

ShaneC93 wrote: »

https://www.facebook.com/groups/124476511495850/permalink/287351878541645

Video of Ms.Cash speaking at the protests in Dublin city centre today.

Would someone not give that poor devil a shirt?

sightband · 23-09-2018 09:45AM

Dannyriver wrote: »

The type of sentence that any mother would hope their well reared child would eventually speak to a child when that same well reared child would eventually reach adulthood.

Have a few drinks on board did we?

Gatling · 23-09-2018 09:54AM

Wonder if that was herself at Aras having a go a Michael D

hawkelady · 23-09-2018 10:06AM

Gatling wrote: »

Wonder if that was herself at Aras having a go a Michael D

There was no reports of anything getting robbed so doubtful it was her or her kind !!

sightband · 23-09-2018 10:13AM

Gatling wrote: »

Wonder if that was herself at Aras having a go a Michael D

Yep, she walked up the drive and tweeted Mary-Lou and said “I’ll take this one”

Dannyriver · 23-09-2018 11:01AM

sightband wrote: »

Have a few drinks on board did we?

Indeed some of us have a social life. Apologies for the complex sentence I forgot where I was writing it.

sightband · 23-09-2018 01:39PM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Any political party siding with her signs their own demise.

I totally agree, I feel Mary Lou was very foolish and naive to get involved with Cash. Contrary to popular belief and purely because of stereotyping there are actually an awful lot of Sinn Féin voters who are mortgage paying hard working tax payers who live in areas that are terrorised by travellers and next door to social housing layabouts.

I put Sinn Féin as my first choice in the last two general elections purely because the other candidates in my constituency were so poor and I am a firm believer in voting for a person rather than a party although it’s fairly futile. I do however have two parties blacklisted, now I’ve three. Won’t be voting Sinn Féin again.

dominatinMC · 23-09-2018 01:50PM

Call it schadenfreude, but I'm delighted that this leech has not gotten her way and been given a FREE house yet. Given the amount of publicity that she has (wrongly) received, I would have thought that some political party would have used her as a their "goodwill gesture", and given her a free house by now. No doubt she will persist, but the longer this goes on, the better, and hopefully she fades into yesterdays news and, with that, falls way down the waiting list. I feel sorry for the kids, they are victims of circumstance.

gmisk · 24-09-2018 10:00AM

All Seeing Eye wrote: »

It’s a clever game Mags is trying to play. Exposing herself to maximum publicity in the hope the council will give her a house just so they won’t get bad press. She has really gone for it in the last couple of weeks doing speeches and public appearances. Bet if she gets the house she wants we won’t be hearing too much from her.

Well it worked for that woman who wanted a "forever home" for free for her and her daugher while she wasnt working and was a student.

She was then handed a brand new home.....then complained constantly about the quality of the windows in the house....:rolleyes:

For context my house had single pane windows which would rattle and almost fall out when I closed the door but guess what i saved 3.5k to get them replaced....you know by WORKING!

Wile E. Coyote · 24-09-2018 02:24PM

BBFAN wrote: »

Anyone who thinks someone with 7 kids sit on their arse all day is plain stupid

Apologies, you're dead right. There's no way she could spend all her free time on her arse. 7 kids at the age of 28 she's probably spending most of her time on her back!

I do love how you completely overlooked the whole point of that post though just to pick up on one small detail. No disputing or condemning the fact that she's receiving a minimum of €34k a year cash into her had before any other allowances.

PlaneSpeeking · 24-09-2018 02:30PM

Wile E. Coyote wrote: »

Apologies, you're dead right. There's no way she could spend all her free time on her arse. 7 kids at the age of 28 she's probably spending most of her time on her back!

I do love how you completely overlooked the whole point of that post though just to pick up on one small detail. No disputing or condemning the fact that she's receiving a minimum of €34k a year cash into her had before any other allowances.

There are still people buying her ****e ????

Jesus wept!

Sweet.Science · 24-09-2018 03:09PM

dominatinMC wrote: »

Call it schadenfreude, but I'm delighted that this leech has not gotten her way and been given a FREE house yet. Given the amount of publicity that she has (wrongly) received, I would have thought that some political party would have used her as a their "goodwill gesture", and given her a free house by now. No doubt she will persist, but the longer this goes on, the better, and hopefully she fades into yesterdays news and, with that, falls way down the waiting list. I feel sorry for the kids, they are victims of circumstance.

Ya see there is always a reason . She has previous for thrashing places and refuses to pay rent

And if they give into her now every tom dick and harry will play the same game

Jimmy. · 24-09-2018 06:19PM

The government may as well put away a budget for five council houses while the boom is back.

Hitman3000 · 24-09-2018 06:20PM

PlaneSpeeking wrote:

Given that we paid for her f**king kid's manicure - NO!

What is so wrong in your life that you talk about children like this?

All Seeing Eye · 24-09-2018 06:48PM

Using some quick internet research shows that between 2006 to 2016 the population of Ireland grew from approx 4.25 million to 4.75 million while the housing stock grew by about approx 233,000 dwellings in the same period. So the population of the country increased by 500,000 people and using an average occupancy of 5 people per house is used then only 100,000 dwellings are needed to cover the extra population. Even say allowing for some of the new units being only 1 and 2 beds there should be plenty of spare dwellings. So what am I missing here with these quick calculations?

stuff.hunter · 24-09-2018 06:50PM

All Seeing Eye wrote: »

Using some quick internet research shows that between 2006 to 2016 the population of Ireland grew from approx 4.25 million to 4.75 million while the housing stock grew by about approx 233,000 dwellings in the same period. So the population of the country increased by 500,000 people and using an average occupancy of 5 people per house is used then only 100,000 dwellings are needed to cover the extra population. Even say allowing for some of the new units being only 1 and 2 beds there should be plenty of spare dwellings. So what am I missing here with these quick calculations?

NAMA factor

plus a few other scams

24-09-2018 06:50PM

All Seeing Eye wrote: »

Using some quick internet research shows that between 2006 to 2016 the population of Ireland grew from approx 4.25 million to 4.75 million while the housing stock grew by about approx 233,000 dwellings in the same period. So the population of the country increased by 500,000 people and using an average occupancy of 5 people per house is used then only 100,000 dwellings are needed to cover the extra population. Even say allowing for some of the new units being only 1 and 2 beds there should be plenty of spare dwellings. So what am I missing here with these quick calculations?

AirBnB.

All Seeing Eye · 24-09-2018 06:51PM

HAP artificially driving up rents?

stuff.hunter · 24-09-2018 07:00PM

All Seeing Eye wrote: »

HAP artificially driving up rents?

whole housing market seem to be a scam, starting from developers through banks, prices are 'quietly' regulated, kinda car insurance way ...

anyways, thats a bit off-topic

the_syco · 24-09-2018 07:02PM

All Seeing Eye wrote: »

HAP artificially driving up rents?

You can't say no to HAP, but you can raise your rent to be more than HAP will pay for.

Alrigghtythen · 24-09-2018 07:03PM

All Seeing Eye wrote: »

Using some quick internet research shows that between 2006 to 2016 the population of Ireland grew from approx 4.25 million to 4.75 million while the housing stock grew by about approx 233,000 dwellings in the same period. So the population of the country increased by 500,000 people and using an average occupancy of 5 people per house is used then only 100,000 dwellings are needed to cover the extra population. Even say allowing for some of the new units being only 1 and 2 beds there should be plenty of spare dwellings. So what am I missing here with these quick calculations?

Those houses aren't where the homeless people want them

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/almost-one-third-of-families-refusing-social-housing-were-homeless-1.3414714?mode=amp

Dublin City Council had 402 offers of social housing refused by people on their waiting list last year and 116 refusals came from individuals or families listed as homeless.

Eight of those homeless families refused a second offer of a different council home...

South Dublin County Council had 87 housing offers refused, and 41 of those were from homeless applicants.

Last year, 68 local authority housing offers were refused in Fingal County Council, and half were from applicants recorded as homeless. In Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, just two of the 110 applicants who turned down housing offers were homeless.

All Seeing Eye · 24-09-2018 07:03PM

stuff.hunter wrote: »

whole housing market seem to be a scam, starting from developers through banks, prices are 'quietly' regulated, kinda car insurance way ...

anyways, thats a bit off-topic

Sort of but is this not what leads to a family of 7 sleeping in a Garda station so interesting to wonder why some people say they are homeless and can’t get a house even though on the face of it there seems to be enough dwellings going by the numbers. Again I must be missing something!

Hitman3000 · 24-09-2018 07:07PM

Deleted User wrote:

AirBnB.

Nearly 7000 dwellings listed on AirBnB as of 23 Feb this year. That includes single rooms, to chalets to houses and apartments.

stuff.hunter · 24-09-2018 07:09PM

All Seeing Eye wrote: »

Sort of but is this not what leads to a family of 7 sleeping in a Garda station so interesting to wonder why some people say they are homeless and can’t get a house even though on the face of it there seems to be enough dwellings going by the numbers. Again I must be missing something!

...market regulation kind of behaviour: build and hold until 'right' prices

Alrigghtythen · 24-09-2018 07:10PM

Hitman3000 wrote: »

Nearly 7000 dwellings listed on AirBnB as of 23 Feb this year. That includes single rooms, to chalets to houses and apartments.

Why didn't she rent one of them instead of sleeping at the garda station?

stuff.hunter · 24-09-2018 07:11PM

Alrigghtythen wrote: »

Why didn't she rent one of them instead of sleeping at the garda station?

she will have to pay for it ...so its a big no-no

Hitman3000 · 24-09-2018 07:11PM

A vacant site tax should be fast tracked to put more properties back on the market or into the rental sector.

Hitman3000 · 24-09-2018 07:13PM

Alrigghtythen wrote:

Why didn't she rent one of them instead of sleeping at the garda station?

Ask her. Although Airbnb is short term by it's nature so possibly not suitable.., but as I said you want to know ask her yourself.

ThunbergsAreGo · 24-09-2018 07:14PM

All Seeing Eye wrote: »

Using some quick internet research shows that between 2006 to 2016 the population of Ireland grew from approx 4.25 million to 4.75 million while the housing stock grew by about approx 233,000 dwellings in the same period. So the population of the country increased by 500,000 people and using an average occupancy of 5 people per house is used then only 100,000 dwellings are needed to cover the extra population. Even say allowing for some of the new units being only 1 and 2 beds there should be plenty of spare dwellings. So what am I missing here with these quick calculations?

Thanks, I often wondered about this

Fr_Dougal · 24-09-2018 07:15PM

Alrigghtythen wrote: »

Those houses aren't where the homeless people want them

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/almost-one-third-of-families-refusing-social-housing-were-homeless-1.3414714?mode=amp

Dublin City Council had 402 offers of social housing refused by people on their waiting list last year and 116 refusals came from individuals or families listed as homeless.

Eight of those homeless families refused a second offer of a different council home...

South Dublin County Council had 87 housing offers refused, and 41 of those were from homeless applicants.

Last year, 68 local authority housing offers were refused in Fingal County Council, and half were from applicants recorded as homeless. In Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, just two of the 110 applicants who turned down housing offers were homeless.

There’s no homeless crisis in Ireland, there’s a ‘Foreva Home’ crisis.

No genuine homeless family would turn down the offer of a house.

Family of seven sleep in Garda station Mod note post one

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