Irish General Election - Friday, November 29th *Read OP for Mod Warnings*

and 500,000 Irish adults living in their family home. To say immigration, either legal or illegal has no impact on housing is either being disingenuous or niave.

Eitherway, the current policy will contuine, the various crisis will contuine and nothing is getting better anytime soon. But then, given the lack of vote for anti establishment candidates, it seems a majority of the electorate are happy with the status quo, both in government and on the opposition benches.

How do you know if he was even a candidate this time, or even a Party member?

Didn't say it didn't have an effect,it obviously does. IPA's aren't the issues though.

The only way mass migration from Africa, the Middle East and Asia is stymied, is with a pan-European approach.

Ireland should have no qualms in taking the lead on this, with a practical and pragmatic approach. Europe has been taken for a lend by far too many interests beyond its shores, and its time to raise the drawbridge, invest in ourselves and in full economic and energy independence from China and the US and BRICS. We have the resources and the capital. Lets make it happen.

Never going to happen

Greens didn't get a go at Taoiseach and they had 12 seats

Labour don't want to be in government anyway so it won't come up

I don't. People will look at who he was associated with and the establishment doesn't want that bad PR. He may have only left the party over this incident. Time will tell.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/taoiseach-eamon-ryan-leo-varadkar-opens-door-to-green-leader-taking-top-job-if-coalition-parties-are-re-elected/a935608551.html

There is no need for any party to be duped by FF and FG into taking the blame for them at the next election. They should hold firm and build up a strong opposition while FF and FG struggle to convince themselves, let alone the rest of us, that they really are any different from each other.

There's plenty of gene pool indies happy to sell their votes for some local investment, the kind of wheeling and dealing FF and FG do so well.

I'd actually be quite happy about the prospect of a FF/FG/Indie government because it will surely lead to at least one of them taking a battering the next time around. Or they actually get their **** together and run the country better, though my money is on the former.

Only if the opposition gives a credible alternative. I believe that is why the current government were largely returned. Not because people are overly happy with them, although obviously some people are, but there is a lack of a coherent alternative.

SF was never going to get enough, even why they were polling high 18 months ago. So voting for them was a shot in the dark as you had no idea who was going to make up the government. With FFG you had a pretty good idea. Whatever option FFG go for to get over the line, Labour, SD, Indies, the main policies will be FFG.

So without some form of coalescence over the life time of this government then the very real possibility will be that FFG will be returned again.

Would banning REITS and foreign based buyer produce more construction worker decreased land price or land hoarding decrease the cost of construction or decrease the cost of build materials.

Have those measures solved the housing issues in Canada or New Zealand make home ownership more affordable for young people?

Banning REITS and foreign investors would make properties available to Irish people to enter the property market rather than getting scooped up by predatory investors, everything else you mention has nothing to do with that, but if the government want to put a punitative tax on land hoarding or address vat rates on building materials, address construction costs etc those are options they are free to explore.

As for the New Zealand and Canada, they revoked those laws years ago… then their housing crisis got exponentially worse, so yes, restricting foreign buyers from the market did work. You know what didn't work? Trudeau's government announcing an aggressive plan to take in 500,000 immigrants a year by 2025. You can imagine how that's working out for young people that want to buy a home.

I have relatives who love getting these cash jobs …..and then moan about the services or lack of housing.
We as a nation can’t have it both ways.

I agree the state wastes money but that is also why I mentioned earlier about any party who tackles the HSE, would get my vote.

I don’t see any reformers in the 174 publicity seeking junkies we just elected.

Won't come to that, because FF will offer them a rotating Taoiseach.

You see the electorate will say to FF why didn't you talk to SF if the FG demands were unreasonable? So there won't be an election, there will be a rotating Taoiseach.

we are already housing hundreds of thousands of people we aren’t obligated to do so. Clear out the demand and address supply. We can’t solve the problem whilst being bound to these mystically international commitments.