"Green" policies are destroying this country

Im sure every one off household in Leitrim plays more than €336 in tax every year, their LPT would even go towards that, so whats the issue?

Your whole argument seems to be "Im against the taxpayer subsiding other peoples way of life except for the subsidies that I personally benefit from such as a 10 billion metro" Can you not see the hypocrisy in that?

And saying everyone should be living in a major town or city at a time when we have a catastrophic housing crisis with sky rocketing rents and houses prices in these exact areas, are you for real like, is this another you already have a house so it doesn't affect you kinda thing? Do you have an issue with the massive amounts of state subsidised housing that has been built in all the major cities especially Dublin for decades? Surely all that has been a burden to the taxpayer since we got independence versus rural people actually having to pay full price for their houses?

You are pro rural people living in towns and villages but cant seem to make the connection that these towns and villages need to be connected by roads and power lines and most one off housing is along these roads so they are just making use of what's right in front of them.

As for Kildare council giving out about all this while being a massive car commuter suburb of Dublin is an even bigger joke.

No, you just need to check your mechanisms, you've become a stopped clock, still wrong most of the time.

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Are you trying to win the Boards spoofer of the year award, or something? That is so wrong from the outset I wonder if our highly paid civil servants know all they should. The EPA didn't seem to know about diesel emissions containing the most potent carcinogen ever discovered when Gormley succeeded in geting everyone out of petrol vehicles into diesels, so it's not surprising council road departments wouldn't know their arse from their elbow.

Country roads do not exist for the principle benefit of one off houses, they exist because of farming and rural history. There are no roads being built because someone decided to plonk a house 3 fields away from an existing road.

In terms of maintainance and spending, you and these county council idiots are off with the fairies. Damage to road surfaces is a 4th power relationship, it's not linear, it's not even exponential, where that is often used to refer to a power of 2. A heavy 32 tonne truck, like a six axle milk tanker, will do 11,692 times as much damage to the rural road I live on, and which passes my house twice a day, as my Honda Civic. Tractors pass my house at least 10 times a day. At 7,000 Kg, each pass does 723 times as much damage to the road as my car - so the tractors do 10 years worth of the damage my car might inflict, every single day. One single pass of a tractor is roughly equivalent to the damage a rural house dwellers car might inflict in a whole year of commuting to and from work.

"“The damage due to cars, for practical purposes, when we are designing pavements, is basically zero. It’s not actually zero, but it’s so much smaller -- orders of magnitude smaller -- that we don’t even bother with them,” said Karim Chatti, a civil engineer from Michigan State University in East Lansing."

So stow that rural house owners tearing up roads and the cost of rural road repairs crap where it belongs.

Some people will buy anything that's shiny and has an Apple logo on it, and I'm in total agreement with you that Elon Musk is a sack of ****.

I just spent a week in the Chilterns, 30 min drive from London. Old forests everywhere, birds of prey, woodland critters. I didn't see one one off house as we went around the area, the difference between there and here is astonishing.

The difference between there and here is that one farmer probably owns 500 acres upwards, unlike here where a farmer owns 50 or 60 acres.

But don't worry there is plenty of one-off housing in the English countryside, you just don't tend to see them from the road.

I spent time in rural France a few summers ago. Complete absence of one-off houses, with many farmers living in villages. Again, completely different to here, I don't get this rural Irish mentality of wanting to live away from everyone else.

Just to add to that, with the high rise you need a lot of money upfront.

If a builder is building say 100 houses they can sell them in phases, you only need the capital for say 20, sell them and you have the finance to move on to the next phase, With building apartments, you have to complete the whole block before you are paid.

We should actually thank the begrudgers, because they are actually increasing the value of our assets. I am in the process of selling my one-off holiday home/estate and when that's concluded, I'll be selling the one I live in. So keep pushing that scarcity value up - kerching! - many thanks.

What percentage of Dublins housing is either owned or rented by the state?,How many native Dubliners have never been employed? if the buses aren't profitable sell off the good routes and cancel the rest,

You accuse me of being mental and then come out with this fantasy, population of Ireland was 8 million in the mid nineteenth century , all those wallsteads scattered throughout the land all date back to 1972?

Look up the old Ordnance maps from the 1800s there were houses everywhere,