Taoiseach Micheal Martin comprende la preoccupazione pubblica oltre 430k stipendi per “zar”
http://irishtimes.com/politics/2025/04/29/taoiseach-understands-public-concern-over-mooted-salary-for-housing-tsar/
di Odhran-J-McAnnick
Taoiseach Micheal Martin comprende la preoccupazione pubblica oltre 430k stipendi per “zar”
http://irishtimes.com/politics/2025/04/29/taoiseach-understands-public-concern-over-mooted-salary-for-housing-tsar/
di Odhran-J-McAnnick
16 commenti
For God sake. If he solves the housing crisis he’d be worth €10m a year.
Phew… that’s alright then.
Why does the housing minister need a “tsar”? Is it not his job to fix it? The nama chap sold off the assets of this country at huge discount to American investment funds. The idea that he can or will do anything in the public good isn’t really based on anything
Why are we using Russian terminology?
Needs a salary somewhere near the average price of a house
He understands it folks, case closed.
That’s all it is—lip service; nothing to see here.
If he solves the housing problems he is worth every penny
He understands it the concern, but he also doesn’t give a shite. Always it what he doesn’t say
Lies. Martin doesn’t give a monkeys.
I’ll do it for 120k
Fire the minister for housing so there’s only supposed to be 1
Fucking ridiculous. This role is yet another effort at indemnity from a government of failure.
Why bother appointing a housing minister if you’re going to create a role to handle the most crucial elements of the housing crisis/workload? So that that role can absorb the criticism for the failings and the housing minister can tut tut along with the rest of us and then move the blame onto the very well-paid tzar role.
This government is more focused on putting distance between themselves and the responsibility for the housing crisis as opposed to fixing it and creating this role is another example of them changing things to suit themselves.
It’s an extremely superficial appointment to appear to be doing something about the problem. There is no new powers attached to the role so he will have to coordinate with the local authorities, developers and other stakeholders, something the department should have been doing already. There is no new accountability to the role as there is no direct targets associated with the work, other than the usual soundbites e.g. unblocking investment in zoned land, removing delays etc. meaningless phrases.
Developers are still have to make a profit and with inflation and land prices, there has still been no effort by the state to actually build themselves. This may be for a myriad of reasons but possibly due to a lack of capacity in the sector itself i.e. lack of blocklayers, electricians, plumbers etc.
Instead of building the foundations of a good housing market, we are creating new roles to unlock potential that doesn’t exist.
We deserve the pain for re-electing the same incompetent politicians and expecting different results. Thankfully I can say I didn’t vote for the same lunatics that are more interested in soundbites than actually enacting any meaningful change to the housing market.
Housing minister doesn’t need a tsar, but NAMA is closing at the end of the year and his buddy needs a job. Sliding him over on a secondment is just a way to keep his current salary going forward.
As the oppostion claimed about the Lowry deal, Irish politics is back to the nod, the stroke, and the wink.
It might be a good move.
An external expert who can move things more quickly.
I’m happy to give it a go. The ministers are ultimately responsible for its success or failures