"average Dublin house prices should fall to ‘the €300,000 mark" according to Many Lou McD.

She should be working in spar deli.

There's literally no point discussing anything with you when you constantly refer to me as a SF supporter, when I am not.

If you can't accept this most very basic point, why should I bother engaging anymore?

Erm. My basic point is that I am not a SF supporter. You can't seem to grasp that.

i appreciate the concerns explained, but the reality is, life actually isnt going well for many people here, this is primarily amongst younger generations, and theyve had enough, and you cant blame them either. this is actually a major problem for all of us, even those of us that have benefitted greatly from our monumental successes over the last few decades, for example, as we all now, we all require more access to our health system as we age, these services are generally provided by younger generations, but if those folks are unable to provide themselves with their own needs, the most obvious being housing, they simply wont be able to provide us with our needs, in particular our health needs....

this is where we all truly are in it together, if we dont resolve this quickly, we ll all end up in trouble, and very quickly so, these issues are now starting to seriously effect us economically, even though in many metrics, this isnt showing yet, but if we continue, particularly into the next decade with these issues, they ll more than likely will start showing, these issues will more than likely show in rapidly rising instabilities both socially and economically, that means it effects everyone negatively, including older, retired generations, as explained.....

....this is where the rise of the alternatives comes in, many of these younger generations realise, older, more established political entities and parties, their beliefs, ideas, theories etc etc, are now toast, as its clearly obvious, what worked for previous generations, simply wont work for them, so theyve decided the best thing to do is vote for these alternative....

in an irish context, this is clearly ffg, their era of dominance is now coming to an end, whether we like it or not, its over, they clearly wont disappear, but they wont experience this dominance again, not for some time anyway

yes the alternatives are a step into the unknown, they will be problematic, there will be failures, but their voters simply dont care at this stage, as the establishment has completely failed them, and they know it....

we now have to accept this, accept we ve failed them, and do whatever we can to help them, or we re all screwed...

....suck it up folks, this era is coming to an end, real change is now happening, and it probably wont be the end of the world either, it ll probably be just fine..

...oh and if you think sf are bad, wait till you see when we finally get an anti party, now that ll be real nasty stuff!

If you think what FFG have done is "destroy" things you are in for a shock if SF get into power.

Incompetence destroys, take a look at what Liz Truss did in the UK in a couple of days and then take a look at SF "budgets".

Very little I would say. More first time buyers than ever before is good news.

So you think young people buying houses for the first time is a bad thing?

Seriously?

Based on any credible figures for housing requirements we've fallen somewhere around 100k houses further behind where we need to be on housing in the four years of this FFG government.

Also miles off on the labour intensive retrofits which will be required especially now that we've signed up to ban fossil fuel heating systems by 2040.

Rents are far higher than they've ever been.

Plenty of anecdotal evidence of construction workers leaving because of said rents and house prices, and young people being put off construction jobs.

We're in a terrible state regarding housing, and due to the last four years of inactivity, it's now far harder to fix than it was before.

And that's before we even get to shortages in other areas relating to housing and the rise of the far-right, which again seems to be fueled by concerns over housing and essential services.

I take it you're referring to Covid, which had some impact, but it didn't stop anywhere near 100k houses being built.

We can go back to the previous FFG government if you like and talk about their failure on housing too?

...shortages were noted at the height of the previous crash, particularly in the dublin region, so.....