Ireland running out of accommodation for Ukrainian refugees due to surge in non-Ukrainian refugees?

A lack of people in the country can also contribute to a housing crisis. There are LOTS of reasons why this has happened not just one.

We cant get construction workers back ..guess why? They can't afford to live here! 😐️

There is such an imbalance between the cost of building some normal apartments than the income and borrowing ability of most first time buyers that in reality most houses are not and CANNOT be built with the end goal of being available to first time buyers.

We may have smaller populations per sq meter but the truth is we have stronger demographics. We have a bigger YOUNGER population and people are still having more kids than they would in lets say Sweden or Norway etc.

When you can't even house construction workers and their families to be able to BUILD the houses you know you have messed up!

Then more recently BREXIT caused a lot of supply chain delays in the building industry and A LOT MORE COST. And even if we switch up our supply chains to the continent it will still cost more to ship.

There has been an 18-25 % rise in construction costs recently. It's huge issue. We need cheaper and more efficient supply chains.

The govt never tried to keep construction workers here after the industry was decimated in 2008 builders were told to go do degrees in IT etc or immigrate. So they did. And they haven't come back. Most who are training now also want to leave. So the labour costs have risen. Also people tend to think of workers as bots that show up at 9 in the morning and only exist for the hours they work. But they also need housing.

We have an issue were the costs of a lot of housing makes them unavailable to first time buyers. The govt needs to find ways around this. Cheaper supply chains don't seem to be mentioned as a plan not sure why.

Planning permission and corruption. Its FAR too easy to object to planning these days. You get two diff authorities suing each other. And notorious corruption.

Short term lets are much more profitable ...you can earn in ten days what you can in one month with AIR B nB etc etc. There is not much point in using a hotel because they are still more expensive usually that the AIR BnBs.

I'm not sure why but the govt has been very strict with spending and most authorities and the national budget has a surplus. A huge one. They will SAY this is because they are being prudent. But it's more than that. The truth is the civil service doesn't even have the capacity right now to spend it. Yes some needs to be put by sure but 5 billion is a bit much. They say its all from the multi nationals and they are worried it won't always be there but they have always known that about multi nationals.

While yes there is a shortage of houses there are still more houses than people think but they are not being used in the way the public and in partic first time buyers need.

Rather than the post boiling over Irish people immigrate. And so things never change.

Ill probably get abuse for this, but the opening of Croke Park for EID on a more seemingly annual basis, and the wall to wall positive portrayal, annoys me to no end. This isn't people adapting, it's a country bending over backwards

It's a back wards sexist horrible religion I want nothing to do with.(Without impinging on religious freedom)

And yes many of these could also be put to Catholicism, but we talk about those problems, and criticise.

The problem with the Celtic tiger property boom and subsequent crash was the construction workers were basically building houses for themselves, that’s where the situation ended up until it became unsustainable.

We had huge numbers of foreign construction workers just coming getting mortgages at a whim and non stop building.

When things went bust they lost their jobs and couldn’t pay back the loans.

More construction workers led to a crazy building boom which spiralled out of control with mad borrowing and lending.

That’s why it’s so much harder to get a mortgage now, we are still scarred from the recession.

You dont really care though about the women and LGBT asylum seekers and refugees so your concern is completely insincere

The Travelodge in Ballymun had been providing emergency accommodation for 5 years now. What changed to spark the protests? The ignorant protests I might add.

Ah yea we got there in the end. You know f all about either county who’s citizens are flooding in.

and yes a counties culture does have a massive impact on those who grew up there’s attitudes. These won’t be educated class moving over here with a brain where they can think for themselves either.

no more need for further discussion with you.

Are you part of our educated class?

Algeria is even more diverse. I know I dated a guy from there. They usually speak 3 languages Berber Arabic and french (they learn english too) and they have 18 diff ethnicities. Also i would say the people are more liberal than morocco.

Again somalia many languages three main Beja, Oromo, and Somali...4 ethnicities

That one person who liked this. You hurted my feelings! 😅

...and none of them are remotely close to our culture.

All have more backwards views to personal freedom, religious and non religious expression and women.

Half of them probably believe you should be executed for blaspheming the prophet or declaring yourself non Muslim.

I would imagine the poster like anyone else here has a relationship be it intimate or family who are women.

So I assume that poster does care about women, I assume everyone posting here cares about women.

You have a lot of cheek telling someone they don't care about women when you have no idea about the person.

It is just more deflection when you can't engage honestly in a discussion.

Ok so tell me how the property bubble happened?

When it all went bust we had 100,000s of construction workers unable to work and pay their mortgage.

Thats one of many reasons.

It was all fuelled by excessive building, borrowing, lending.

massive and sweeping generalisations are very poor arguments!

I talk to a very broad selection of people on a daily basis as part of my job.

There’s HUGE anger and resentment out there at the moment over how society is going.

It has been simmering for a good few years but people are absolutely sick to the teeth of what’s going on in terms of lack of housing and services and a sense that “chancers” are abusing the Irish generosity.

I’m not one bit surprised that the protests are escalating.

Which totally makes sense if you have BEEN there.

I can't quite explain it.

But walking around morocco ...i felt opressed. I when i went inside ..it was better. I dont want men to feel like that.

I dont want young men to grow up in a country where they can be thrown in jail just because they have no money to pay someone off.

I think it's because gay people KNOW what it's like to feel that way ...oppressed ...that they can empathize with that horrible feeling.

Ok you are going to call me mad. But I think gay people and women ..have this internal genetic instinct to just 'know' ye know? Like i can sense the patriarchy .....dictator etc ...like i sense it.