The department cautioned “that a range of dwelling types at various price ranges” were covered by the figures while noting that the cost of delivery can vary greatly depending on the type of development and the area involved.
Why are you taking these figures as gospel? Indeed in some councils such as Limerick, it is cheaper to buy turnkey properties than for the council to develop their own.
The devil will be in the detail here and I would imagine the owner of the land would be a big difference.
Another day another record opinion poll high for SF
Looks like their la will be ag teacht pretty soon...
Long way to go to another election.
However, I am sure that there will be some lad along in a while to tell us that it is undemocratic that we don't have an election when Sinn Fein are this high in the polls.
Will be great to see a woman taoiseach for a change tbh.
There is no point in engaging with that post. Selective quotations from articles behind a paywall are a very flimsy case.
Interesting poll, from what I can see, SF seem to have taken at least some points from the Greens and FG, if they (SF) are + 3 points, and the Greens and FG are both down 2 points each.
SF now polling at nearly the same numbers as FF/FG combined.
Phenomenal polling for them.
I find it hard to see what will transform the picture beteen now and then. SF are kind of invulnerable as the main opposition party. They've been through various mini-scandals like around Brian Stanley's alleged homophobia and it's barely dented them.
I suppose it's possible the government parties could enjoy some 'wins' but they're firefighting on so many fronts it's hard to see them doing more than holding their ground.
FF were on 32 two weeks before the election. These things can change fast. It's a bit like winning the transfer window I guess.
The most important thing they need to do is get shovel in the ground on the big infrastructural projects so that Sinn Fein can't cancel them to pay for goodies for everyone.
The next most important thing is the work of the Commission on Taxation and Social Welfare. That will become a key election issue as parties will have to explain whether they agree with its conclusions or not. Sinn Fein may be badly exposed on this as it is difficult to see how such a Commission would be against carbon taxes, LPT or water charges, all of which Sinn Fein wants to abolish.
The housing issue won't be solved within the lifetime of this government, and that will be the big stick that will be used by Sinn Fein, even though they have a complete lack of practical solutions.
How on earth can you "abolish" water charges, if they are already abolished?
Maybe I was dreaming, but did not FF/FG establish an "expert commission" that effectively abolished them, when it concluded that water should be paid for, out of general taxation?
Not SF/PBP/whatever Paul Murphy is calling himself these days, FF/FG were responsible for that one.
As it happens, I agreed with the concept of charging for water usage, but of course FG/Lab tinkered with it so much that what we were left with was a sham and a scam that people wouldn't buy into.
Nonetheless, it's already abolished.
No. Life's too short. SF and others objected based on allocation of social and affordable and how a private developers profit added to the cost.
Its all there.
Am I? I'm simply reporting that SF and others voted against it and had reasons.
Affordable and social housing aren't 'goodies'. Lining the pockets of vulture and cuckoo funds is as is crony state contracts and jobs.
We've had enough. The new polls show it.
Time to use a family who had a relative die in the troubles?
Where have SF said they want to abolish carbon taxes. They were against increasing them in the latest budget but there's a massive gap betwen the two.
This is so crammed full of barefaced lies, dressed up to look like mere "inaccuracies" it's laughable.
In todays poll you can see the dilution of the SF party by new voters and their bread and butter priorities. Only 36% of SF voters now think a UI is "very important" and I think I read over 20% think it's not important at all, but it's paywalled so can't re-read.
Aren't SF just going to become Fianna Fail in the end?
The new voters they have to try hold on to do not have a UI anywhere near the top of priorities if at all.
Yes, they are showing all the signs of becoming FF Nua.
All things to all people, with every principle available for sale, while clinging to a far-away dream of a united Ireland, that is so far in the future that it only serves at holding the populist population together.
Might I respectfully suggest that your memory might be a bit hazy or possibly skewed?
The poll had "Sinn Fein supporters" at 83% in favour of a united Ireland.
47% in favour of a united Ireland, but in no immediate hurry (which I'd agree with, you can't exactly go rushing into something like that)
36% supported a united Ireland, and thought it was "very important" which in my mind is meaningless anyway.
What the other 17% thought, who knows as they didn't seem to elaborate on it.
I see polls are important again though, if some lads can use what they see as "points" to score.
I notice that Blanch never answered you, another blatant lie/defelction by that poster, regular occurance.
I don't think you've gone in to enough depth. See how many SF voters don't think a United Ireland is important, I think it was over 20%.
The inevitable Fianna Failisation is happening. The party is being dragged to the center and more adult politics because it has no choice. If it moves away it loses the more recent voters.
The question I have is when the split happens because die hard republicans particularly in the north won't recognise the party in a few years time.
They won't be republican enough.
Only 36% of SF voters here today now think a UI is "very important"...think of what that would been 10 years a go.
That 36% are only protest voters though and wouldn't have a pile of loyalty to SF and just vote for them as they want change....
Can I ask where you have been reading these stats? I have read it, and nothing mentioned like you state above.
Eh? The 36% who think a united Ireland is important are only pretest votes to a party who have Irish unity pretty high up their list of policies?
Wrong quote
Louise O Reilly on Katie Hannon earlier. Offered nothing as usual, highlights included:
"You'd think for 400 grand a year, Paul Reid would be able to reel off which vaccine centres are open for walk-ins off the top of his head"
Had the brass neck to say the government let female soldiers down (previous governments did nothing about misogyny tbf) when she's literally in the top brass of a part that up to 20 years ago saw these same soldiers as legitimate targets? Her party still actively celebrate doing that to this day.
Yeah I don't know why some need to bring up how much someone earns at every opportunity. There is a fine line between legitimate criticism and just outright begrudgery.
Well it was like she had nothing else tbh. Hadn't done her homework as usual. For me that's the most concerning thing about the SF Front Bench - they're always short on the details, like I don't mean they need to publish minute plans but in interviews they seem to fail to grasp what they're talking about.
Even think back to Mary Lou "someone else knows the figures" - if you cared you'd know them. That's before her leggin it from the COVID briefing that was too long for her (if she had an issue she should have asked someone else to go for her).
Or Pearse Doherty last year whinging he's being asked AML questions because he didn't know what a PEP was. How did someone who has spent a decade apparently trying to become Minister for Finance not know that unless they weren't doing their homework.
While the FF (and FG, green guys to an extent) do make mistakes you get do get the sense that they are at least interested and take it seriously.
List out the portfolios and who the SF minister would be in each in such a government.
Closes the argument about credibility really.
It's not even about policy, they lack talent and that would be concerning.
Minister for Finance Pearse Doherty, that's as good as it gets (a two time college dropout) and it's all downhill from there...
The immediate impact would be there would be little faith in them internationally like Syriza in Greece, for example, so from day one our interest rates would go up (and that's without anything even happening) and that's just the beginning.
Long story short there would be a credibility or competence gap that would be hard to fill.
Eh? You wouldn't mind clarifying what you are referring to here would you? Sinn Fein saw members of the Irish Army as legitimate targets? Are you sure you are up to speed on this?
@Kermit.de.frog
Just now that you've come back to the thread, you might have missed me querying where you got your stats from in reference to the UI polling numbers today, especially the "Sinn Fein supporters" numbers, I've read the poll results, and I don't see what you are purporting.
Fair enough a lot of posters in these forums who will have egg on face with these polling results because they've been predicting the inevitable demise of Sinn Fein for years, but you can't just go making up stats to suit yourself either.
You have to remember that the majority are floating voters. Not everyone who votes for a party currently, agrees with them 100%. Its who looks like meeting what the voter wants at that time. I don't think people worried about housing and health have a UI as the main reason to vote SF.
It's in the Irish Times here (paywalled)
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/large-majority-of-voters-favour-a-united-ireland-poll-finds-1.4752459?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Flarge-majority-of-voters-favour-a-united-ireland-poll-finds-1.4752459
