‘Historic Low’ – Solo 6.325 avvisi di inizio della casa quest’anno, il tasso più basso dal blocco
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/historic-low-just-6325-house-commencement-notices-this-year-the-lowest-rate-since-lockdown/a1138348502.html
di RealDealMrSeal
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Election was last year. It’ll pick up before the next election and if it doesn’t, they’ll just lie until after the election.
You see. Sorted!
Dismal
Had yer chance to vote for change lads, but ye were just too lazy to get up and vote. No sympathy here
There was clearly a typo in the name of their housing plan – ‘Housing for F*** all’
It’s still shit but the number was presumably always going to be low this year after last year’s cutoff date inflated the numbers. Average of this year and last is just over 20k vs. 15k for the two prior years
Question is… are the 34k started last year still going ahead, and when will commencements pick up again?
I think we are besrly st the point where the gardai need to be called. How many billions in oublic land, htb snd othet incentives are being thrown at this with no improvement?
These turncoats couldn’t organize a whore in a whore house, unless they were getting a cut. It’s mad that this is how we “run” our country
This right here is the problem,and no amount of help to buy schemes or taxes on landlords is going to make a blind bit of difference as long as we keep building less homes than we need.
I would not like to be 20-35 in this country. No future here.
Still paying the price for 08 it seems
We’ll be cutting the number of visas issued this year accordingly right?
“A fairer comparison would be with the first six months of 2023, when 15,561 commencement notices were filed, or with January to June 2022, when 14,149 housing starts were notified by builders.” Just for reference for those looking to save a click
While this article pointed out that last year was artificially inflated, it doesn’t point out that that means the first half of this year will be artificially depressed. Those who were thinking of commencing at the start of 2025 would have rushed to “commence” early, even though to commence you don’t need to do much more than dig a hole.
On the flip side, it exposes what a flop the development levy waiver seems to have been – it didn’t “activate” anything any quicker, people just filed paperwork earlier.
The waiver only applies if the house is completed by end of 2026, so we’re probably going to see a spike in completions towards the back half of next year, it will be interesting to see just how high it does spike, but I’m not too confident
Well I have my house so fuck everyone else. ⬆️🏠
Fewer and fewer people can afford to build a new house.
Click bait article.
Ireland population has drastically increased over the last 3 years, and we haven’t built or had the infrastructure in place? Is no one going to mention this ?
Engineer, (Carpenter in a previous life). I have built 3 houses since 2007 in Galway.
They need to cut the rate of VAT to 0% on all construction materials for a fixed period of time.
My most recent self build in Oranmore, Galway ,(direct labour) cost approx. €410k and about €50-80k of that went to the government.
That is bullshit in a housing crisis. We can afford to take the hit on taxes for 3 to 5yrs.
The population has grown greater than the capacity of our infrastructure. Houses being built are still blocked from completion due to issues with electricity, sewage, water etc.
We are adding something like 80,000+ to our population annually, you’d need to build the infrastructure capacity of Galway annually to accommodate that, nevermind additional Garda, hospitals schools roads etc.
We have to significantly limit work visas and try get our immigration down to less than 10k net a year and start building everything to try catch up. Consolidate planning laws, increased public funding etc.
The level of dysfunction in the Irish government is genuinely staggering. How anyone believes we can accommodate nearly 90,000 non-EU/UK immigrants annually, while struggling to deliver even 30,000 new homes in the same year, defies basic logic. It’s a failure of planning and governance on a scale that borders on absurdity.
If the so-called “centrist” parties refuse to take responsibility for both housing and immigration policy, they are leaving a vacuum that more extreme voices will inevitably fill. And the problems extend far beyond housing. Recent reports highlight overburdened sewerage systems, potable water shortages, an overstretched electric grid, and even a court ruling that may prioritize new arrivals over Irish citizens in need of housing support. This is incompetence that verges on criminal negligence.
We’re led by politicians who, in many cases, lack the qualifications or experience to manage a complex modern state, supported by a civil service that seems to reward mediocrity and stifle ambition. As a young Irish person, it’s deeply disheartening to feel unwanted in your own country, both by those in power and by segments of the electorate who continue to vote in those whose lack of competent leadership and vision caused, and perpetuate these crises.
Regardless of where one stands on immigration, it’s a glaring red flag when tens of thousands are arriving while tens of thousands of young Irish are leaving for lack of opportunity. These challenges are not insurmountable, but they demand leadership, vision, and competent governance. Unfortunately, those are precisely the qualities that have been absent from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael for decades.