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  1. KingKeane16 on

    This makes no sense, Vacant grant is 50k for a house and the vacant store one is 135k..

  2. ParaMike46 on

    This is something I always found bizzare, we have literary thousands of those places across Ireland. Small shop or business on ground flor and absolutely nothing above.

    Dublin is full of those big buildings where we have some vape shop and 3 empty floors above it, in beautiful old house in great location. It’s such a shame

  3. LadderFast8826 on

    Even if this does make sense to fix the housing market, does it stick in anyone elses craw that this is essentially a 135k grant to property owners.

    So they can sell/rent to normal people?

  4. funkinggiblet on

    I read this wrong and I was like “They are turning vacant spaces above homes into shops!?”

  5. MagnifyingGlass on

    My dream has always been a small apartment of my own directly above a kebab shop

  6. Great, the vape shop/phone repair shops owners can just invite 20 of their cousins over on bogus work visas, pay them less than minimum wage and make them live above the premises. 12 men to a room tenement style. Because that’s what’s actually going to happen.

  7. jools4you on

    A local pub is trying to do this and the owner is having a terrible time trying to fit an old building to modern regs.

  8. Bill_Badbody on

    We have seen similar schemes announced and roled out over and over again over the last decade or so.

    And they havent ever really been massively successful.

    Fire safety and access mean that a lot of the tjme, unless you own multiple buildings in a row, its not possible.

  9. TheRhizomist on

    Another stupid act by the government to funnel more money into the back pockets of their mates.

    Tax vacant property out of existence. Not give them more money, you stupid ducks.

  10. Educational_Deer_137 on

    None of these grants really matter. The issue is (according to a friend in planning) is that fire regs and plans make it very difficult nowadays to get planning for these conversions. Access to fire exits is a big stumbling block. I cant see this working tbh 

  11. olibum86 on

    The rich get richer, and the state seems hellbent on ensuring that. James Connolly spinning in his grave

  12. RogueRetroAce on

    Newsflash

    Spaces above shops now unaffordable for the workers of Ireland due in part to the govt offering grants to those who could already afford to convert spaces above shops into homes. Knock on effect of pricing now places actual workers outside of ownership due to affordability. How the government could have forseen this has been defended by the current housing minister as “impossibly to forsee this outcome” “lessons have been learned” “no magic money trees (for the poors)” etc etc.

  13. In no parallel universe does it take 360k to build a bike shed

    Or, the state of that children’s hospital and that temporary USC tax

    Or, the 100m funding given to greyhound racing

    This is simply blatant corruption, not inefficiency

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