The Action Plan for Housing.

[Nollaig O Muracu]

Where did anyone say that 51 houses was enough?

Nowhere. Ye criticised people who said that though.

That's what I was responding to.

Sorry MOE, I never give people credit for doing the bare minimum. Especially FFG.

 

[Nollaig O Muracu]

Exactly, We all know 51 isnt enough but every new build helps, We have politicians objecting to developments from all parties,

And an incompetent government who have made a bollocks of it since 2012. Ye never point that out though jimmy, and act like SF are just as responsible as FG for it

They're not. Not even close.

 

[MerchantOfEnnis]

Nowhere. Ye criticised people who said that though.

That's what I was responding to.

Sorry MOE, I never give people credit for doing the bare minimum. Especially FFG.

Yes I find it really frustrating when people try and find fault in any bit of positive news.

Is 51 new houses a good thing? Yes

Is it enough? No, but nobody is claiming it is

So maybe people could try focusing on positives instead of automatically focusing on negatives?

It's almost like people don't see the difference between 0 houses being built and 51 houses being built. If it's not "enough", then it's meaningless to them.

 

[Nollaig O Muracu]

Yes I find it really frustrating when people try and find fault in any bit of positive news.

Is 51 new houses a good thing? Yes

Is it enough? No, but nobody is claiming it is

So maybe people could try focusing on positives instead of automatically focusing on negatives?

It's almost like people don't see the difference between 0 houses being built and 51 houses being built. If it's not "enough", then it's meaningless to them.

Na I'd say keep the pressure on them.

Always. They've earned it.

 

[MerchantOfEnnis]

Na I'd say keep the pressure on them.

Always. They've earned it.

I don't think they're going to stress themselves too much about the comments section on Cork Beo

 

[Mike Strutter]

You can't even spell "lose" correctly ffs.
Clearly you've no ambition at all.
The classic "shur it'll do" Paddy attitude.
Get these spoofers out.
51 homes is a tiny tiny %.
How about we pay these scumbag politicians a tiny % of their over inflated salaries for a few years.
Tell them "it can't be solved overnight but by 2030 you should be receiving full pay"

How about they get paid 'performance related wages', they'd go hungry I'd say

 

[TheOutdoorThreadmill]

How about they get paid 'performance related wages', they'd go hungry I'd say

Would you work for performance related wages? How would the opposition be judged?

 

[BlarneyMan]

You can't even spell "lose" correctly ffs.
Clearly you've no ambition at all.
The classic "shur it'll do" Paddy attitude.
Get these spoofers out.
51 homes is a tiny tiny %.
How about we pay these scumbag politicians a tiny % of their over inflated salaries for a few years.
Tell them "it can't be solved overnight but by 2030 you should be receiving full pay"

Sure, let's do that with social welfare too. "Once you get a job, and retain it for 2 years" we are retroactively going to pay you SW". Or. Once you don't let your child down and don't end up in a hotel in first 3 years of your child's life, we'll give you child benefit in bulk, retroactively....

 

[Meridian]

Every house built is a help, Problem is the increasing population means we will always be playing catch up, even in ten years time,
A change in government might work but the problems with planning, labour shortage, price of materials will still exist,
In the last 20 years many parents would have been ashamed if their son or daughter said they didnt want to go to college but wanted to do a trade instead,
We are now seeing the results of this, Truth be told the recent governments took their eye off the ball on housing and now it is a runaway train,

Bang on there Jimmy ?

I was speaking to someone this morning, he was recently doing a safepass course, one of those ones that are open to all.
The trainer started out and asked were there any apprentice's in the room, 1 guy put his hand

The trainer then remarked that it was months since they last had an apprentice at safepass training.

The average age on a lot of sites is now 50 and these are well paid jobs.
Kids these days do not want to do the hard graft anymore and that is a fact.

Just regarding your own post, let's not forget here the source here of this housing problem, that is Nama.
They managed to shut down and to liquidate practically every house construction company that was operating in this country back there in the bad days of the last recession.

 

[Meridian]

Yes lads, lambast the homeless and the poor. Punch down down down.

51 houses won't scratch the fucking surface. So no, it's not enough

That's just a statement of facts.

How are people homeless and poor when our social welfare system is so generous, neverlone the charities.