New Irish Housing Starts - Way Below Target *Read OP for Mod Warning*

And we're nowhere near building infrastructure to meet even half of that 90k. There's a serious risk of creating huge societal issues with our rapid population increases while not keeping up with services, from schools to health to public transport to water and electricity supply.

With the huge surplus we are running each year, plus the Apple money, we will never have a better opportunity to fix some serious issues in this country, but we all know it's going to be a botch job and money will be wasted with nothing fixed at the end of it all.

So we should all rant and rave on internet about sacking politicians.

Doesn't really offer much to a debate does it?

You voted for this government yourself 2 months ago, yet are telling other to vote for alternatives….?

Look at the performance of Neal Richmond on the tonight show last night. Blatant misdirection, misinformation and political guff. These politicans are professional spoofers, and for too long the media have let them away with it.

How are the " media letting them away with it "? Who are you blaming for government politicians lying ?

Next you will be blaming opposition parties for it !

It's been all over the papers and every news program .

The journalists get them on ask them questions get other commentators or opposition TDS to debate with them ..that is how it is put before the public in a non biased way .

I even heard Sharon Ní Bheoláin saying to a commentator on Leader's Questions today in front of a FF TD..

" so MM did mislead the Dáil then about these numbers ?"

Ask the questions, investigate , present the facts, allow debate .

That's all they can do . It's not their job to stand there and tell Ministers off or write long opinion pieces ..that is the non journalistic types who can't be trusted to be non biased.

It"s up to Mr and Mrs Public to watch listen and make up their own minds after all the facts have been presented and probing pointed questions asked .

If more people had watched and read proper MS news media and thought a bit more about instead of being fed nonsense by cute hoor independents on Social Media , maybe we wouldn't have ended up with this shower in government again , backed up by the same group of cute hoor independents who have now got their pay out for sowing distrust in other political parties .

That's who I blame for this mess . Eejits who voted for them and now blame everyone except themselves .

.And those that seek to undermine all the opposition at every turn . We need the opposition who have more than shown their mettle over the last few weeks.

If people like MM and Darragh O'Brien are not called to account in the Dáil where will we be ?

This government will think they are not accountable to the people anymore .

Rte is the establishment mouthpiece, when ffg make decisions on how much the gravy train in rte should be funded and it's eye-watering amounts each year. That gets impartiality does it ? Lol!!! The notion of an impartial media, is beyond comedy. It doesn't and can't exist...

An Phoblacht and the Socialist Wurker, methinks! Maybe with a bit of Una Mullally and Ivanna "Labour in power will build 100,000 houses a year" Bacik thrown in for light relief.

On the main topic of this discussion, given that Health and Housing are the two constant issues that even the most intellectually stunted TD on the Opposition Benches can embarrass the government on, it's hard to believe that the government isn't desperate to see the numbers of both housing start ups and completions increasing as quickly as possible.

No it’s because people like yourself vote for them and then 2 months later rant away about how crap they are and that you want them out. It’s beyond comprehension how you can be so “angry” with them and then go out and give them your vote telling them they’ve done a good job.

Thankfully it's not the abject failure that Northern Ireland is on housing where LESS than 5,000 new homes were completed last year - isn't sinn fein part of the Northern Ireland government?

That was on RTE tonight 😜

Brilliant stuff . As long as someone doesn't find a way to slow it down, make it exponentially expensive , tie it up with regulation ..

Well if any nation can do that, it'll be us.

Modular homes, remember them? There was a company on rte news one night, 1 bed fully turnkey were €69k, 2 or 3 bed were €99. Everyone was saying how great they were.

2 years later, we hear the modular homes the government delivered cost something like 450k.

41K and 50K aren't possible given the amount of available tradespeople we have, availability of material and Id wager amount of planning submissions going in. One off housing is simply too expensive as is the construction of larger estates etc.

The system is completely screwed.

They would vote for change for two reasons:

1. They had kids living at home with no sign of moving out or with a future that may involve immigrating.
2. There was a viable option available to vote for that had a solid plan with more than just sound bites and rhetoric to vote for.

People are afraid to try something different because that 'something different' hasn't done any better in the other jurisdiction they operate in and have beaten themselves from the inside over the last 48 months and that something different haven't provided anything in the way of solid plans.

Surprisingly things could always be worse and it's that risk aversion coupled with the above that keep the incumbents the incumbents.

50k maybe but I doubt it on 40k.

Payroll data shows we had 10k more working in construction in June 2024 than the end of 2022. Commercial activity has been dwindling and whilst people aren’t just transferring to residential as there’s a lot more going on, there is almost certainly a continued growth in workers supporting residential construction. PMI data on residential construction has been strong the last year.