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

My parents both from a Dublin suburb (was countryside even when i was young) had 8 and 7 siblings.

Every one of them left Ireland before or just after the end of secondary school.

All of them (bar one who died), some with spouses and children in tow came back to live in Ireland between 1994 and 2000. Only 2 of them could afford to buy near their parents. The rest scattered and most bought houses further out.

The 90s wasnt just a time when it was possible to get a job in Ireland after school, but it was a time when a couple of generations that emigrated before also came home to jobs here and all looking for homes. It was also a time when it became normal to expect both of a couple to have a job in order to contribute to the mortgage. So much demand arrived in the country at that time.

again, the issue with uprooting people would more than likely induce even more dysfunction into society as a whole, yes you may improve an area, but you simply move the dysfunctions elsewhere, and possibly/probably magnify those dysfunctions, creating an even bigger problem elsewhere, which in turn just ultimately drains the greater social systems/institutions such as our legal system, welfare system, health system, educational system etc etc, i.e. it actually ends up just creating an even bigger problem on the grander scale.....

helping to maintain some sort of social cohesion is critical in reducing and limiting these social dysfunctions, forcing a large proportion of people out of areas, induces brake down in these critical social networks, increasing the likelihood of issues such as mental health issue, addiction issues, crime, you end up effectively opening Pandora's box, in which is next to impossible to truly resolve, i.e. theres critical points of social dysfunction of when induced, such as those mentioned, i.e. mental health issues, addiction, crime etc, it becomes next to impossible to eradicate them once induced, i.e. you end up in long term, even generational dysfunction, so the key is to try prevent it from happening in the first place, long term unemployment is commonly also induced under such conditions, in which of course, all taxpayers ultimately pay the price, i.e. we shot ourselves in the foot by inducing such outcomes, i.e. prevention is better than the cure(which in many circumstances, simply never happens, even generationally)....

...our housing price issues are clearly directly related to the significant increase in the activities and involvement of certain market entities such as the fire sectors into our property markets, i.e. the exact same issues many other advanced economies are currently experiencing, this has been very evident over the last couple of decades, which has directly caused a multiple fold increase in overall prices, in many cases as much as 3/4 times as much, before the involvement of such entities....

Nah, not some rebuttal, just my usual cynical sarcastic type response to thinly disguised racism.

Anyone that writes "any government funded agency (ngo, if you like)" in their post should have their opinion dismissed immediately, on the basis that they don't have a clue.