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

Flying kites and talking shite, classic Leo.

Funny how the health system reset back to same old, same old when covid died down.

SF will be no salvation. They will make all of this worse as their only real goal is a United Ireland - something most down here don't really care about beyond romanticism and certainly not when the idea of paying for it comes up, but then as you say given the costs they already face it's not surprising.

Too many of our political class are from political dynasties or married into them, most if not all own their own homes (certainly the main players) and are landlords themselves. There's no accountability, no consequence, no penalities. FFS even in the UK they will normally quit or be forced to if caught out, but not here... here they brazen it out or (like Enda Kenny used to do) disappear for a week or two before declaring "nothing to see here!"

Until we change how politics works in this country, there's little hope of anything else changing.

Can anybody explain the politics going on here?

Sure. There’s no crisis in housing in Ireland. There would be if most people didn’t have a roof over their heads every night, but that’s simply not the case. The politics going on here is that some people are using claims of the existence of a housing crisis where they never gave a shìt before now, in order to argue against Ireland fulfilling it’s legal obligations in accordance with international human rights law to provide for refugees.

One has nothing to do with the other. People seeking accommodation existed in Ireland long before refugees arrived here, and those people were ignored by the vast majority of people because they weren’t affected. They’re still not affected, but that has never stopped a tiny minority of people who are unaffected from trying to whip up a political movement out of nothing by way of purporting to care about people they still regard as being a drain on Irish society.

Leo is just being Leo, he’s always been careful to sense which direction the political winds are blowing before he comes out with some of the stuff he does, like when he came out with stuff like this -

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/leo-varadkar-well-never-apologise-for-standing-up-for-people-who-get-up-early-they-deserve-a-break-36249175.html

Or this, which was just as comical -

https://www.thejournal.ie/fact-check-leo-varadkar-welfare-cheats-3404165-Jun2017/

Leo is a politician, you’d need to be incredibly naive to believe he has any real interest in putting the welfare of other people above his own interests in maintaining his political career.

That’s the politics which are going on here.

People not affected ? So that means they shouldn’t have a view or express that view ?

No, it means people who are not affected. It doesn’t mean that anyone shouldn’t have a view or isn’t entitled to express that view. I specifically referred to the tiny minority of people who aren’t affected who express views as though they are concerned about the people who are affected, and are using said false pretences to argue against Ireland taking in refugees.

The OP asked for an explanation of the politics going on with Leo coming out with his latest effort, and Leo recognises that the vast majority of people in Ireland while they are concerned about housing, are also concerned about providing protection for refugees. The vast majority of Irish people see these as two separate issues which aren’t in conflict with each other. It’s only a tiny number of people who are portraying both issues as though they are in conflict, in accordance with their own political views.

People who are unaffected by these issues, which is the vast majority of people in Ireland, aren’t interested in showing Leo the door while they’re still benefiting from Irish Government policies, which most people are.

Yep, spot on. And anyone that speaks against it in public is called a fascist or Provo.

‘Snot quite true to say that nobody wants an end to immigration, there are a tiny minority of people who do. Their limit is zero, in accordance with their terms. The vast majority of people in Ireland don’t agree with their terms, as evidenced by their poor showing in elections -

Take in people, but don't put in place any extra housing, health facilities, proper public transport. It's the Irish way.

Btw a hotel is NOT a house. They've gotten it into their heads that shoving people into hotels and shuffling them up and down the country from one sh1t hotel to another sh1t hotel is good enough.

In that speech Varadker also mentioned our constitution as being a barrier to solving the housing problems. How so?.

A Covid style response, a can do attitude says Leo.

He and the Government literally did nothing during Covid. Nothing of merit or logic anyway.

One of the lowest populated countries in Europe, an island , lying on the edge of Europe yet we had one of the harshest and longest lockdowns in the developed world.

Almost 2 years the country was shut down, at the mercy of Nphet and Philip Nolans Walter Mitty modelling.

The HSE was and is a basketcase, hardly any extra ICU beds were created during Covid with the result that any time there was any bit of a surge in bed numbers the whole country was put into lockdown.

So what did the Government do, they shut the country down, borrowed huge amounts of money , leaving the country with the third largest National Debt per capita in the world.

They waited until they were bailed out by the vaccines.

An ultra conservative, devoid of logic policy , certainly not a can do attitude.

They wont fix the housing crisis, they wont fix the HSE, they wont fix the welfare classes.

The huge Corporate tax take is covering over all the massive cracks, but that wont last forever.

An utterly inept Government, spineless with hardly one capable minister.

Mate— are you trying to tell me that only poor folks are homeless in Ireland?

Trust me, I know plenty of people, making decent/good money working that are homeless and couch surfing or sleeping in their car. Either because there’s literally just no where to rent or places that are cost €€€€€’s. More properties available = lower rents on average and fewer homeless people.