‘Housing Czar’ da nominare imminente – Taoiseach
https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2025/0404/1505833-housing-czar/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJcondleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHZi3-TDj1UqaO2ZPmm73AzS4odkt19bq1MsbaxWRgS9_RqJDWhG4hMDuvQ_aem_uTI3NH7Os_Od5CX5Qw7EUA
di miju-irl
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I wonder how bad their internal numbers look that they’ve finally decided to start making some noise like this…
Could have sworn this was the housing ministers jobs.
Sad but not shocked to see FF/FG laying the groundwork to point finger of blame for further failures in housing at anyone but themselves.
They misled the public about the housing situation in the run up to the election.
now Lowry is propping them up.
Worst government ever ??
We have a minister for housing that already doesn’t give a fuck. Has their indifference grown so large as to require two people to ignore the problem fully?
Why do we need a czar, can’t the people who are already responsible for this just get the effing finger out and do their jobs?!
I would have always spelled it as tsar tbh
Probably should just build houses rather than creating bullshit government positions.
What’s all this bollocks recently about referring to government officials as Czars? Is it some vain attempt to placate people with with right-wing/authoritarian tendencies by using terms that indicate government strength and power?
This is absolute nonsense from MM, importing political language from Trump to try and distract from the massive failings of FF and FG in Government.
The equivalent of, “is there anything to be said for another mass”
Just what we need, another quango. This time focused on HouSEs. What could possibly go wrong?
Can we not with the stupid fucking Americanisms?
Imminently. Perfect. Six months after an election where housing was a central issue, and many years into a housing crisis, glad to see that we are almost but not quite in a position to give someone a job which may or may not help fix the problems.
Wouldn’t want any unseemly haste in the matter.
What’s the minister for housing doing then
Well I guess they need someone to blame when they miss their own targets again
Will it do anything ?
Why can’t we ever have a “tsar”. Looks cooler and much less Americanised
>~~’Housing czar’~~’Housing ScapeGoat’ to be appointed imminently – Taoiseach
Fixed it
Yay, in 6 months we can give czar the boot and none of our representatives will be at fault.
What the f is a czar. Why do we keep copying these American jargon bs terms
In the last 15 years, I have lodged about 100 planning apps.
I have never really had any unexpected issues. Just follow the guidance in the development plan. Its not rocket science. If there are gray areas error on the side of caution to guarantee permission. The only time I have run into trouble is when clients ignore advice.
Also giving politicians back their old zoning powers seems like a bad idea. The current evidence based system is not perfect but at least it was better than the old FF pulling strokes for their cronies system we had in the 00s/90s.
Czar? Are we back to Dark Age?
I hate this trend of calling things czar.
Another useless public sector position that won’t do anything, and will most likely be overpaid. Stop wasting money on shite. If ya want to put more money into wages in the public sector, give it to someone more deserving. Pay nurses what they’re worth.
Wasting his/her time unless we look at the demand side. We need to restrict massively the amount of people coming in (for a few years at least) and step up deportations. Unfortunately there are too many vested interests in the likes of the3rd level institutions who want to keep the students coming in and then they can apply for roles here. All the while when many youngsters here are looking to take the boat as they see no future.
More twaddle
Gotta keep up the pretence of actually fixing the issues.