Who are you giving your #1 vote to on Friday?

Sick of FG.

I will never vote FF.

Shinners seem to have lost their way.

Was going to vote Aontu, they have a few polished representatives they wheel out for interviews, but my local candidate is a head case.

I think I'll go Social Democrats.

I wouldn’t worry.

They’ve only got 11 votes.

The quota is 16,427

One thing is certain. This Boards poll will be as far out as every previous election poll on Boards.

I wish I knew but hard to know. I will vote for whichever candidate will do the most for my town. Would love it to be someone from Labour ir the Social Demecraes but I think they are either Fianna Gail or Fianna Fail :(

I won't be voting for either of them but I think Aontu & Independent Ireland will have a good election

Make Ireland Miserable Again

We are not a very big country… but the absolute state of it takes some miss management. That is a direct result of the same FF/FG governments over the last 100 years.

The housing, the waiting lists in hospitals, the childrens hospital and the location of it, the lack of transport infrastructure particularly in the west of the country, the forgotton people in Donegal over a number of matters, the security hut, the bike shed, the TD salaries increases over the last number of years….. how long can we go on here …….

I dont vote for any one party, i usually go with who I think maybe best for our area…. I cant vote for FF/FG in this election.

One of those two at one time built too many houses across the country

There’s food for thought for you there

To counter that:

Ireland is ranked 2nd highest in the world for quality of life by the UN.

There were 32,548 new homes built last year and we are heading to 40k houses this year so supply is increasing.

The 2020 Global Peace Index ranks Ireland as the 12th safest country in the world.

We have a budget surplus of €23.7 BILLION

On 10/10/24 a new planning act was passed to speed up the delivery of new major infrastructure.

There has never been a better time to live in Ireland.

How about the price of houses? Is that coming down since we have so much supply?

I'll be voting SDs first preference, and in a shocking one for me, an ex-FGer in Noel French as my second preference due to personal experience with him. Peadar Tobin is standing here, so Aontu will do well but will be quite low on my transfers, essentially just above the assorted nutter types on the right and PBP on the left.

Houses are now 10-12% above previous peak of 2007

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/06/19/house-price-inflation-accelerates-to-almost-8/

In same 17 years inflation gone up 21%

As for stocks…

I didn’t say we had “so much supply”.
I said we are increasing supply.
What do you think the government can do about private builders making so much money or about CRH making so much profit on building materials?