The accelerating fall in Sinn Féin support

You didn't answer my question and tellingly neither have the banks yet for SF have they ?

The build number needed has no relation to who owns them. Someone is living in every house. This is a question of whether we want to bias their use to home owners? We probably need between 50 and 60K/year, to balance supply with demand. Not sure how big a problem there is, outside of the major cities? In the last 2/3 years their is a boom in the number being built in towns and villages. The only problem, is the price of them.

Will I get a mortgage on a site where my bother wont sell me the land

In other words No,do you see the problem now with the SF plan ?

4th? Ffs.

This needs a bigger investigation surely?

…and again, wrong, our governments, both current and past, have been doing all they can to inflate the price of property, this is generally called financialisation of property markets, of which most advanced economies, including ireland, have been engaging in for many decades now…

….under such conditions, the state steps back from providing critical needs such as housing, and promote other major parts of the economy, in particular whats typically called the fire sectors(finance, insurance and real estate), to provide this critical need, hence why we ve seen such a rapid growth of such sectors in ireland over the last few decades.

..from this approach, you ll find that most countries that engaged in this approach have resulted in almost the exact same outcomes, in the form of hyper inflated prices, highly dysfunctional markets and serious supply problems, as its primarily a demand driven approach, i.e. by increasing the money supply into such markets, in particular the credit money supply, which is created and provided by the finance sector itself, hence why we ve seen a rapid growth in private debt across most advanced economies, including ireland.

….this is turn causes what economists call a 'rent seeking' dynamic, whereby more and more income is used and required to service such debts, and less and less is available for other economic activities, which in turn generally leads to slowing economic activity and ultimately a stagnant economy, which is the most likely outcome for ireland eventually.

…other known demand based policies such as first time buyers is also known to help inflate prices, also experienced in other countries such as australia as well as here in ireland…

interesting you mention irelands 1.1 trillion household wealth, yes exactly, this is exactly what such policies do, i.e. inflate the value of assets such as property and land, i.e. all good for current owners of such assets, not so good for current none owners of such, i.e. younger generations!

we ve no clue what would happen under a sf government, and we may never find out, but we know full well whats gonna happen under further ffg ones, i.e. further price inflation, and rising supply to be fair….

..so again, you re completely wrong!