Shortage of housing is a ‘critical barrier’ to investment in Ireland, Ibec warns – Independent.ie



Shortage of housing is a ‘critical barrier’ to investment in Ireland, Ibec warns – Independent.ie

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  1. It’s bizarre that this isn’t a bigger part of the conversation. Don’t get me wrong the horrendous human impact and the impact on communities is paramount, but it’s still critical to make this a part of the conversation. Whether we like it or not, most of us rely on a robust economy and its growth for our livelihoods. These kind of drags on competitiveness and growth are dangerous.

    A small thing, but anecdotally I’ve heard of recruiters finding it very difficult to fill specialist positions in Dublin because of the lack of suitable housing for candidates.

  2. It’s absolutely heartbreaking where the country is headed. The housing crisis is deeply political between an army of 20/30/40 year old renters and 50+ year old homeowners that have dug their heels in and refuse to vote for anyone other than FFG. The crisis is a bottleneck that is impeding further investment from overseas and we are fast hitting the tipping point. The 50+ years old don’t depend on multinationals for their income. They don’t give a fuck.

    Just imagine where we could be in 10 years in terms of international investment and jobs if we had more of the likes of buildings they’re putting up in Sandyford right now. All it takes is for the government to take an active role in construction administration along with encouraging our talented tradespeople back from Oz and Canada with good, stable, well paying jobs. But the FFG base would never allow it.

  3. Who the fuck is going to be living in Dublin in 10 years time? Any new builds are like 600k minimum and there’s old shacks and tiny former council houses going for 500k minimum if it’s anywhere near the M50. It’ll be an army of 60+ year old people left in the county at this rate.

  4. Are we at a point where FFFG are caught between what needs to be done and what their friends (developers and land lords) want? The solution is to give them a long timeout from government.

    Housing, health, immigration, forestry, nursing homes, industrial schools, cervical check… when are we going to learn that these guys do not have our interests at heart? This is entirely our own fault for electing these guys. We did this to ourselves. We have the power to fix this ourselves by electing new TD’s. But yet we just can’t manage it.

    I’m really trying to believe that we can fix this country. It’s so hard.

  5. No one is looking to the impact this is going to have down the road. We already have the pensions timebomb.

    We are now starting to see people who will never own a home and god knows what they will do for security in the retirement years on top of the pensions time bomb.

    FFFG and their mates have utterly raped this country

  6. So officially everyone who doesn’t make their money primarily through extortion by rent wants more housing or at the very least can acknowledge lack of housing is bad for business and therefore economy.

  7. Not too many ideas in Ibec’s report that don’t involve handouts to developers. Government seem to be thinking along similar lines.

  8. Dublin isn’t Paris. Cork isn’t Florence.

    The “we don’t want to ruin our beautiful skylines with high rises” is ridiculous. We’re not talking Empire State Building, we’re talking 20 or 30 story apartment buildings with office space and retail buildings at the bottom. We can get nice architects to make them look good. I just don’t understand why this isn’t done here.

  9. The company I work for has recently been forced to find and pay for accommodation for new staff. This has never happened previously.

    I suspect that once tax harmonisation in Europe starts to happen, Ireland will very quickly become a non-competitive country.

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