Prime Time housing debate: Eoin O Broin vs Darragh O'Brien

You fail to mention that it is Fine Gael claiming that SF are blocking these developments. Thats right, its only a claim!

Sinn Fein response:

Sinn Féin rejects Fine Gael claim of resistance to more homes

Ó Broin says party opposes ‘sale, gifting or transfer of public land to private developers’

To summarise some of the difficulties with those developments:

1. 60 per cent the homes there will sell for more than €400,000 and the deal supported by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil allows the developer 10 years to build them. 
2. Mr Ó Broin also said the O’Devaney Gardens project was passed two years ago “and not a brick has been laid”. He insisted that “nowhere in Dublin City, South Dublin, Fingal and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council have Sinn Féin councillors or council groups voted against proposals to build homes”.

Well, Mary Lou is not the only one who has objected to that development. It exemplifies everything that is wrong with Government Housing Policy.

1. Its a build to let development owned by a US venture capital fund.
2. It by-passed planning with DCC (who are also objecting to it) and was approved by An Bord Planala under the Strategic Housing Development Government plans. This process is meant to be repealed by the Government who are dragging their heels over actually doing it (presumably because they just want to shout that SF are blocking houses being built!) There have been several court cases over it because of its exclusion of local authorities in the planning process.
3. There is no affordable housing being built there. The 540 Studio apartments (38sqm) will cost €1500 (33% of development). Rents for 1 bed and 2 beds will be higher. There is a total of about 1600 high rise apartments (8 stories high) being built.

Architecs have described the development as a 'high rent ghetto'. Frank McDonald is losing his rag over it. Mary Lou (whose constituency it is in) is merely looking out for her constituents who are all opposing it.

Read all about it here and don't make the same mistake of trying to defend the indefensible.

https://www.thejournal.ie/drumcondra-rental-units-5597489-Nov2021/

Leave the debate of the pros and cons of this development aside, do you want to now retract the above statement you made otherwise it makes you look foolish:

"You fail to mention that it is Fine Gael claiming that SF are blocking these developments. Thats right, its only a claim!"

There are no private buyers in that particular development in Drumcondra. Its all apartments for renting. Cheapest rent for a studio apartment is going to be €1500. Good look with saving for a deposit for a house paying that kind of rent.

Retract what you said about SF ‘not objecting’ to new homes, as clearly highlighted in the post, but you know that already.

This is the level of debate to be expected with SF supporters, propagate falsehoods, get found out with proven facts and respond with gibberish.

Anyway I am sure the other intelligent posters on this thread will follow the rationale.

It hasn't, they won't form the next government

To be fair, rates at 4% would be a return to historical norms, even if inflation will be painful in the meantime to do so.

It is a naff phrase but it does sum up that type of landlord, buying a property for a bit of extra money and their retirement. Their exit has left a big hole in the rental market.

SF election promise was 100,000 homes for €6.5 billion. Absolute bluffers.

The electorate badly needs a proper alternative centre party.

political parties are clearly deeply concerned about this, they just dont know what to do about it, and they keep defaulting to their ideologies in trying to resolve it, without accepting, they wont work!