The Action Plan for Housing.

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One-off housing policy shift will allow people build homes on their own land, says Taoiseach

The Taoiseach says there is a review of the guidelines.

www.thejournal.ie

 

[Yermon]

I think it was Stephen Bartlett who said recently that if he was advising a young person now on a career, he'd recommend a trade like that.

There'll always be a need for plumbers, builders etc

I can remember a teacher I had in school who went on about when things got tough and there was a financial downturn the plumbers and carpenters would all be out of jobs while the doctors, dentists, and engineers would always be employed.

Wouldnt have minded one bit if I or one of my kids had a trade. I saw how they all traded their skills building houses for each other on direct labour. A good plumber/carpenter is as hard to get as a GP these days and seems a lot more expensive too

 

[Yermon]

What?

This is clearly not about money as the ESRI have said many times.

It turns out there was a need for houses to be built. But we’d no money to build them and there was a relatively temporary phase of high unemployment.

If we had kept construction capacity going through those years building national infrastructure rather than homes we’d be in a much better place now.

That was a catastrophic failure of austerity and the EU approach to the financial crisis. There was no foresight that countries would need to rebuild. Countries like France and Germany are suffering from the lack of investment in those years too.

Thats some about face by you since your previous #7567 post

 

[Hallbopping]

Thats some about face by you since your previous #7567 post

Wot?

 

[Yermon]

Wot?

Oh dear sweet baby jebus. You actually still don't see it????

 

[Hallbopping]

Oh dear sweet baby jebus. You actually still don't see it????

Read the room. Nobody sees anything at all besides you.

 

[Yermon]

In one post you said that money isn't the issue in the restriction of housebuilding, and yet in the very following post you said "It turns out there was a need for houses to be built. But we’d no money to build them"

Is this your most recent photo?

 

[Meridian]

I can remember a teacher I had in school who went on about when things got tough and there was a financial downturn the plumbers and carpenters would all be out of jobs while the doctors, dentists, and engineers would always be employed.

Wouldnt have minded one bit if I or one of my kids had a trade. I saw how they all traded their skills building houses for each other on direct labour. A good plumber/carpenter is as hard to get as a GP these days and seems a lot more expensive too

One issue there and that is with teachers in general.
They are people who have been in the school system since they were 4 / 5 years of age and have a very limited experience of work in general.

Therefore, why should anyone really take any notice of someone with so little actual work experience out of the education field ?

 

[Hallbopping]

In one post you said that money isn't the issue in the restriction of housebuilding, and yet in the very following post you said "It turns out there was a need for houses to be built. But we’d no money to build them"

Is this your most recent photo?

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Oh you’ve had a mare today. If you read it ask you’ll clearly see I was responding to a post which said in 2010 we’d no demand for plumbers, carpenters etc.

The fact that we let our construction industry cease and essentially emigrate during the crash is exacerbating our housing crisis now and has done for years.

 

[Meridian]

Oh you’ve had a mare today. If you read it ask you’ll clearly see I was responding to a post which said in 2010 we’d no demand for plumbers, carpenters etc.

The fact that we let our construction industry cease and essentially emigrate during the crash is exacerbating our housing crisis now and has done for years.

You are absolutely correct, Nama shut down the residential construction in this country in one foul swoop and what I don't get is, how come they and whatever decision makers decided that, are not getting the fair blame for it.