Leo Varadkar to tackle Ireland's housing crisis 'Covid-style'

Around two years out from an election and he reckons he should start doing something... criminal situation with housing here . The cost is astronomical if you aren't getting a free house. The state needs to reduce building cost or do far more cost rental schemes etc. In fact, it needs to do both...

Where do I sign up the kids to one of these free houses ? Everyone getting free houses these days in the free state. 🤣🤣🤣

Or do we just pay for them ?

😒😒😒

Otherwise I will have to send the kids abroad.

Leo and Co can publish articles in the Irish times about how great Ireland is and they can read about it from some far flung shore.

I’d say they’ll just rewrite the planning laws… be a lot of high rise buildings and apartment blocks.

Leo will BS us with something like “Focus will still be on safety but laws amended to cope with population responsibly”

not surprised at Leo’s comments….which are very deliberate btw…… almost the first attempt at ‘ heads up to ireland and citizens ‘ …. ‘ gotcha, this isn’t really temporary ‘… as I’m on record as saying back at the start that this would happen. Not because of any cryptic insight but Leo ain’t hard to read…

at the onset of covid Leo said…

“I also promised that we would do all that we could do to protect the health of our citizens, to prepare our health service, to support our healthcare staff and to try to cushion the blow to the economy, our businesses and your livelihoods.”

but now that the Ukranian situation developed….that speech is in the bin…. The health and indeed wellbeing of citizens, their livelihoods, financial health, our economy is an afterthought…. This country is now in trouble. Long term trouble.. we’ll be feeling this for years and years.

Supply and demand will dictate cost.. never has there been a greater demand that is about to spiral to get multiple times worse.

The Government is already struggling to meet its current ‘Housing for All’ targets, which were based on a housing need of 33,000 homes annually but Department of Housing records however are showing that, in reality, 42,000 homes are needed annually…. That’s before, this influx..sooooo…we are fûcked, that’s all there is to it… and Leo couldn’t give a rats about that fact or indeed about any Irish citizen.

price of housing going up… wages down or at least stagnant…

soooo.. not a great outlook for Irish citizens….

The government should have capped the number of people arriving…

the EU should have pushed for non EU countries to do more…. A credible ‘international response ‘…Far too much has been put on and expected of the EU member states and their citizens …. The Ukraine hadn’t even applied to join the EU until February 2022, the 28th I think, 4 days after the invasion… 🤪😵‍💫. Convenient eh…what ‘covid style’ approach can Leo take ? Well he’s already started in typical insincere buzzword fashion determining ‘covid style’ which actually tells Irish citizens and taxpayers, nothing….

im playing a match later and our tactics will be ‘ covid style ‘. The fûck ?

that’s not going to fix a crisis and neither will anything Leo and pals, do or say… this will be a decade or more fixing.

the solution will be mobile home parks

watch this space

Leo being Leo is all this is. Spin and soundbites for what he thinks will play well to the public, but no substance at all behind it/him as usual!

If they want to address the housing crisis, step 1 is to stop inviting/allowing all and sundry who turn up at the (air)ports with a sad story immediate entry and supports. Might not be popular for the crusaders, but that's the truth of it. We're a small island nation of 5 million people who can barely support the people we have (long-standing issues in health, infrastructure, urban/rural investment and yes, housing too!) and we absoutely cannot sustain the current free for all championed by Leo and co that is exacerbating all of these issues.

Until we get a politician/party that is prepared to put Ireland's needs, and those of her native and legal citizens first, then all this is more nonsense whose only real intent, as noted above, is to get us all used to the idea that these people are here to stay! (as if that was a surprise to those of us who have even a passing interest in politics in this country).

He mentions the word that is critical to what is to come - "emergency".

He'll be sorry he drew that comparison with Covid. People will expect a response as swift and financially profligate as Covid.

But thats not possible, because we are talking about the delivery of a product, each worth an average of 200k input cost and needing thousands of moving parts to deliver.

Perhaps if he was just honest with people and lifted some of the impediments to both public and private home building alike, it'd be understood by most people as a good start.

absolutely. Wonder why for example, Croatia has taken in less than 20,000 according to the latest numbers I’ve seen, far nearer to the Ukraine than Ireland, a fraction of the distance yet…We have multiples more, tens of thousands more Ukrainians here…That’s undeniable…yet are thousands of kilometres further away…. Interesting… despite a war, the Ukraine folks coming here were doing so with long term planning in mind.

So Leo has quite a job on his hands. Never about protection, more relocation and enabling fresh starts. He knew that, he was attempting to hoodwink us…

It's FG stated policy to artifically increase the population of the country through immigration. Coveney (another big supporter of diluting national borders and identity like his friend the late Peter Suterland) has said that they want to increase the population by a million.

This current situation allows it to be done in the guise of charity and "responsibility", but what would you expect from a party that spent millions on a Spin unit.

Truth, and in the meantime, no practical plan to provide housing or any other critical service to taxpayers and citizens.

Leo has never done anything of note since he became a Minister. This is nothing new from him. Leo is all about Leo and what he thinks will further his future career after politics. More concerned about his Twitter account than doing anything of note that might be unpopular with his followers. Remember, even FG's own grass-root supporters didn't want him as leader.

He and his party and his coalition partners are wholly responsible for this situation, just as they are the annual "crisis" in the HSE over the winter, but I wouldn't hold my breath expecting any actual progress in resolving either or anything else! Might get a few more "feel-good easy-win" referenda though!

You can go with conspiratorial , I’ll go with factual…. Croatia hasn’t taken its share like Hungary, or Serbia….to name three… more too, all quite nearer to Ukraine.

which is all adding to our challenges and inability to house taxpayers and citizens.