The Action Plan for Housing.

[Barry K O Bama]

O Brien has been housing minister 2 years. Coveney and Murphy before him were equally clueless. Or do they also live in duplexes? (as bizarre an argument as I've ever heard).

Coveney and Murphy were equally ineffective
The point I was making about O Brien is that he doesn't understand many of the problems and is relying on the ologists to provide expert advice that frames policy

The problem is that the theory often doesn't apply in practice

The government wish to apply the same density levels to suburban/edge development in Dublin (pop 1.2m) and to a metropolitan town in Cork (pop 8k)

Different dynamics, different market forces. - One size fits all solution won't work. Not viable outside the pale

 

[Barry K O Bama]

Apparently everyone living in a duplex has a ready made excuse for having 11,000 plus homeless and over 100,000 living at home in their childhood bedroom in their 20s and 30s...those damn duplexes.

If you want to have a discussion or debate on a huge social problem, just address the issues and present some solutions. Otherwise just stop trolling

 

[Barry K O Bama]

sister stan was on radio yesterday, when asked how she felt was the best way to.make progress on this, she said party politics should stop and parties should not be using the housing crisis to advance their party, She is corrrect,

That's one of the most constructive comments I've heard

 

[markyboy]

Thousands protest in Portugal over housing crisis | BreakingNews.ie

More than 50 per cent of Portuguese workers earned less than €1,000 per month last year

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Retirees moving and buying and Airbnb have caused big problems.

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www.relocateandsave.org

 

[FSG OUT]

That's a ridiculous argument from Sister Stan. It's a housing crisis. How are the opposition NOT supposed to politicise it? People have been saying we've a crisis since 2017, the scumbags in charge didn't listen and now they want to be applauded for having a deficit of 250,000? How exactly should the opposition be approaching it? They've told the government not to end the eviction ban, they told them-for years-RPZS weren't working. Fatty O Brien wouldn't go on tv and debate with anyone and, before Xmas said housing wasn't a crisis/an emergency. What would Sister Stan do differently? This has been going on since 2017.

 

[MerchantOfEnnis]

What we need is a genuine cross party approach where everyone sits down at a table and agrees that what we need is supply, and everyone needs to be working towards increasing it.

Take away political incentives in slowing down new supply.

Sadly I can't see it happening. Much easier to stir up anger.

 

[Meridian]

What we need is a genuine cross party approach where everyone sits down at a table and agrees that what we need is supply, and everyone needs to be working towards increasing it.

Take away political incentives in slowing down new supply.

Sadly I can't see it happening. Much easier to stir up anger.

SF/IRA are not going to do that, all they can see here is political gain from idiots who entertain their simplistic solutions.

The longer this " housing crisis " goes on then the better it is for this scum organisation.

 

[MerchantOfEnnis]

SF/IRA are not going to do that, all they can see here is political gain from idiots who entertain their simplistic solutions.

The longer this " housing crisis " goes on then the better it is for this scum organisation.

You'd have to think there are plenty within SF who are disgusted by what O'Broin did yesterday.

You'd hope there are anyway. It would be very concerning if a party which wants to serve in government would support such an attack on our police force.

 

[Happyhonkaman]

You'd have to think there are plenty within SF who are disgusted by what O'Broin did yesterday.

You'd hope there are anyway. It would be very concerning if a party which wants to serve in government would support such an attack on our police force.

Yep, they did it with Health - Slainte Care

 

[PROCNA2018]

There are 2 parts to this.

It is art where photos of Gardaí involvement in evictions has been reproduced in a 19th century setting. And there are multiple instances of photographic and video evidence of Gardaí watching evictions or facilitating forced evictions by heavy handed individuals. So as art, it's making a point and while Gardaí are obviously present to keep the peace and not to enforce the eviction themselves, unlike the RIC of old, the image is powerful in the context of the homelessness crisis and the eviction ban being lifted and I don't think it should have been lifted.

The second part is the politics of it. O'Broin is to housing as Ryan is to climate. A lightning rod for ideology over pragmatism. I don't think Ó Broin was going for the SF critical of AGS angle. But he sure as hell knew that's the inference that would be drawn.

Personally I think it's hilarious that his tweet of art drew more "offence" than the "free sweets for children" from Cowen. People are using the usual attack on SF to deflect from the reality of the failure to deal with homelessness and housing over a decade. Let's not lose sight of the fact we are talking about people being kicked out of homes where they have paid rent without issue now too, including the elderly and children.

That that is not the offence being taken more than the Ó Broin tweet says a lot about our politics.

FG FF + will be the next government. Based on the Ireland Thinks poll, SF would have to get 37% and FG FF drop to a combined 35, for there to be any chance of an SF government. People can hate SF all they want and scream SF IRA all they want although at some point the efficacy of that single line of attack will become counter productive.

Multi Dáil issue doesn't excuse the crisis we are in. Lifting the eviction ban gained no political capital with the majority of the country and as such was unnecessary. Ó Broin being the housing nut that he is played right into the government hands by creating the open goal which has taken over the news cycle.

We need to fix the fact we have 12000+ men women and children homeless. The eviction ban didn't stop homelessness increasing per Hank, but you can be sure it kept a control on it ballooning until now.

At some point we need to address our systemic issues, using the SF IRA deflection will only last so far for those squeezed out of the property ladder or their rental home.