Right to a house?

I suspect their constituents are pretty satisfied with job they are doing. They may be many things, but only a fool thinks the Healy-Rae’s are incompetent. All politics is local first.

Just to put that into perspective, there are currently approx 500k rental properties in Ireland, 25% of TDs have investment properties including rentals, farmland and non rentals, down from 33% in 2017 The highest is MH-R with 16, most have far less than that. How that equates to “huge swathes” or “vast amounts” is known only to you.

MH-R is an independent, he is not in any of the three Government parties.

The point often made is that most new developments owned by investment funds are forward financed. That means they buy developments in the planning/early development stage and finance the build. Without that finance, both developers and Government have admitted the developments would not have been built. So you say they should not be allowed to do it, but without the finance those new developments would not exist. I do agree that they are maximising profits by charging inflation topping rents, but let’s not be hypocritical, workers are looking for wage increases of the same order.

TDs are required to declare their interests outside of politics, of course it is ok for them to invest their money just like any other person.

In relation to forward funding, this has been widely reported on, of course there will be other ancillary investments such as one off housing/completed developments in high demand areas, their investments are not restricted to new builds only,

Your sister did what every property seller does, accepts the best offer, does that mean the system is broken or make her a bad person? Of course not.

Given that the interest rate on Government borrowing has increased by 2% recently and the ECB has ceased covering Bonds, the cost paid by the youth of today will increase significantly if you want the Government to invest the necessary capital to build the houses needed. It’s a **** situation, but as I have said many times, past generations have faced equally stark situations associated with employment and housing, and used their initiative to see hay needs to be done. We have the highest population since the Famine, we are at almost full employment, not just that, due to MNCs we have a high percentage of high paying jobs, so as long as a significant proportion of the population have those jobs/money, particularly in Dublin, the only answer is building more properties. To do that, you need the private sector and you need profit, without both, there are no houses.

So having some lofty vision of social fairness, everyone gets the house they want, where they want for the price they can afford may be admirable, it is not realistic. If you can’t afford to live where you want, look for somewhere where you can.

Post the data on those in well paid jobs having no cash.

Some reading for you:

https://www.centralbank.ie/docs/default-source/statistics/data-and-analysis/credit-and-banking-statistics/bank-balance-sheets/money-and-banking-statistics-december-2021.pdf?sfvrsn=4

Often mentioned by people. I always ask the same question and never get an answer from the person bringing it up. Maybe you can answer it.

If the TDs are looking after themselves as landlords can you show me what legislation have they brought in to favour themselves?

As far as I can see the legislation has been punishment on small landlords which includes TDs

The problem with that is that small time landlords (1 - 2 properties) supply approx. 53% of the rental tenancies. I know you are not suggesting getting rid of them all , but the problem is that the big landlords (REITs etc.) will only want to build in cities and very large towns. They won't want to build in small towns with a population of 1000 - 2000 or in rural areas. The small time landlord can't be done without.

I do agree with everything else you've said.

What complaint?

TDs have brought in legislation which benefits big institutional LLs.

TDs are asset owners- presumably on mortgage-free properties given TD salaries. They can sell the assets later on and don't necessarily rely on rent as income.

The mystery of how TDs benefit from privileging big business we'll just have to ponder.

The facts are that FF/FG have brought in legislation which benefits big business and delinquent tenants, and disadvantages small landlords.

How you want to interpret those facts are up to you.

I have my own speculations but I'll keep it to myself since I can't prove anything, as you say.

Small LLs never banded together to form a grassroots lobbying group which I regard as a pity because I think small LLs are good for the country.

I haven't dismissed anything.

The facts are the legislation helps big business.

I won't speculate or get into why I think that is, so I won't be accused of being paranoid/conspiracy theorist.

It MAY be as simple as big business lobbies for its interests, NGOs advocate for tenants' interests and small landlords do NOT band together to lobby collectively.

Presumably some small LLs write to their TDs but it is a mistake to communicate as an atomised individual when other interests act corporately.

major institutions are also playing a vital role in making sure an environment of continual asset price inflation occurs, at all costs, so everyone's a winner! its well known that polices, such as trade agreements etc, are effectively designed by such institutions, so again, everyone's a winner! this process is far more visible in countries such as america, but theres clearly a similar process occurring here to....

.....again, this is all ideologically based, our primary government parties truly still believe in the fundamentals of such of ideologies, beliefs such as 'trickle down' etc etc, i.e. you continually implement such polices, believing that the wealth created eventually trickles down through society, but the longer such polices are in place, the opposite actually occurs, i.e. ownership of wealth, which is primarily held in the value assets such as property, actually ends up highly concentrated, leading to whats called a rentier economy, and wealth actually trickles up, leading to rising wealth inequality, which in turn, leads to highly complex and dysfunctional social, political and economic outcomes....

Because there is a huge need to get investment to build housing in the country. They are following public will to restrict rents and don't care about small landlords. It is the fact people are claiming that they are looking out for small landlords that is the weird thing along with they are doing this for personal gain with no way to show it.

It is you that have the ideological view that there is a vast conspiracy to have economic situation that you believe is happening. You can't engage in any matter on property without your view on a conspiracy.

The question is very simple what have they done to benefit themselves as small landlords in legislation and actions?

Your response seems to be they get their ideology in action. That doesn't benefit themselves as small landlords so doesn't answer the question it makes a different claim. I dismiss your view because it requires too many people of different political views to be working together in a way they have never been able to do. It is possible what you are saying is happening but it is not coordinated