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

yup, demand side stimulation(first time buyers) simply wont work, but will only help to inflate prices, its a capacity constraint, i.e. not enough workers, this approach wont increase output, output will very likely stall at about 35-40k a year for the remainder of the decade, resulting in an even bigger problem heading into the 30's!

…and again, its a capacity constraint, theres simply not enough workers in the sector, and probably wont be for some time, planning protests arent helping, but……

You are being deliberately dishonest now. Why? Why do you keep referencing a Greenway?

Do you know the difference between a Greenway and an Outer Bypass?

One is for cycling. One is for cars and buses. I want the outer bypass built. Our traffic situation is chronic. We are 25 years in planning with 50 million spent. That's the FFG legacy. Similar to the Children's hospital.

Greens don't want the Outer City Bypass. So they don't get my vote.

Does this explain it for you? Your dishonest posting just makes you look even more foolish.

Mod Edit: Warning issued for uncivil posting

They have but they have always had a smaller party there to the take the damage, it was Labour a few times, the PD's and the Green's twice now I think and each of the cases it was either FF or FG led but what is different now is that it is going to be a joint FFFG led government with more than likely a few independents so for FFFG are totally exposed now, either they deliver in this government or come the next election they won't have a smaller party to blame or hide behind so one of FF or FG will take a hiding. That's why I see it as a win win, the Green's took all the blame in this election and FFFG were barely touched, now we will see what they are made of.

It's time now for FFFG to deliver on Health, housing and Justice, we can see if they can live up to it now.

yup the whole planning process is a mess to, also leading to a failure in meeting targets going forward, the whole planning process has been a mess for decades, all under ffg governments, so nothing gonna change there!

hahaha, jesus, are not able to realise highly complex issues tend to be due to a multitude of problems, and not just one singular issue!

Yep and they have no excuses now. They used the Covid excuse for a few things but they were lucky there was no Covid inquiry to discuss before the election because I thought they were extremely weak during Covid across a range of issues.

I see in the Indo that Harris has appointed McEntee to lead the negotiations with FF.

Oh dear! Even Paschal backing her up won't help there. Hopefully she gets relegated to something where she can do no more damage though, unlikely as that is - deputy leader AND a woman = untouchable in this era of gender quotas and "equality".

The fact she's completely incompetent and has been a disaster in Justice is besides the point I guess!

McDonald is gas, she spent the last month shouting about getting FFG out and now she is whinging FF won't talk to her.

Very good points there. But it's 4 years ago now and the Irish have very short memories. In fairness I suppose some pretty monumental things have happened in the meantime to make Covid seem a distant memory. Russia /Ukraine, a virtual explosion in immigration numbers, cost of living gone awol, Tories gone, Trump back etc etc. But I agree that FFG were very weak during the pandemic and it was barely alluded to during the campaign.