Piano di sviluppo nazionale: 275 miliardi di euro da trascorrere nei prossimi 10 anni, con l’edilizia abitativa che ha ricevuto una spinta più grande – The Irish Times
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/07/22/national-development-plan-live-updates-infrastructure-housing/
di WickerMan111
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Sure any of us could write fantasy
Does anyone want to start an absolute cowboy outfit to get some of this? We could apply for a bunch of the government contracts, promise to build a load of stuff for a bit less than any other bid, and then we could just pocket it and blame ‘complications’ or something when we don’t deliver it and then just wind up the company.
Need someone to do a deep dive on what’s the increase in spending -v- inflation over the last few years? i.e. are we just catching back up to the baseline or are we actually increasing spend
None of this will happen. It will all be pissed up against the wall. FFFG are incapable of making long term, well thought out plans for the good of the country. They are just working toward the next election cycle. After which we’ll inevitably hear about the ‘shelving’ of the 2025-35 National Development Plan.
>Uisce Éireann will get €4.5 billion in funding for large-scale and smaller projects, including ones to help with house building.
And people think they won after water charges were not introduced.
Well, I suppose the people who never pay for anything, don’t have to pay for it.
Oh it’ll be spent alright, won’t be anything to show for it though.
It’s so frustrating because Ireland could be absolutely deadly for everyone if we had a competent government.
Costs have spiraled out of control.
Here is a 2018 article stating the estimated cost for Metrolink to be 3bn.
Now low estimates are 12.5bn up to 25bn.
https://www.thejournal.ie/metro-link-route-3918018-Mar2018/
This country has lost the run of itself. A crash is badly needed to knock sense into people.
A huge chunk of it will disappear into the profits of the likes of BAM. Another massive chunk will disappear in fees consultants, and advisors, and auditors, and experts and accountants etc etc. And at that point the remaining 4 years of this FF FG government will be up and the incoming SF PBP government will have a new set of priorities and will publish a new NDP after about 12 months and the whole cycle starts again.
I know this sub has a weirdly disproportionate SF leaning, but this is the infrastructure that needs to be put in place to meet the projected growth in housing stock, putting into context the outrageous claims made by SF in terms of numbers of houses they could deliver.
Whilst this spending package is way, way overdue, I think the least helpful thing any political party can do is gaslight the electorate with unicorns and fairies.
The grim reality is that if we had ALL the money required to solve the housing crisis, it would take a couple of decades at least to deliver all the work that needs to be done, anyone who promises you a quick fix, “if it sounds to good to be true”… is either lying or completely incompetent to govern.
A lot of people don’t want to deal in the currency of reality and maybe because they put more value in hope, but the reality is our housing crisis has, at minimum, a decade or two left to run, I’m not sure we’re even keeping pace with our population growth.
(And this isn’t a pro-government party comment, FG and FF inaction over decades and reckless handling of housing stock and legislation following the financial crisis has compounded our current predicament severely and left us deep in a hole)
Great news
Housing data centers more like
For such an important plan and published documents, not too mention the vast sums of money involved – its incredibly vague in detail.
Probably on purpose; maybe it’s political cover.
Given that they estimate €500m is required before picking up a shovel on Metrolink, of which just half is spent so far, I dont see €200m per year going very far.
Good to see €2 billion allocated for the commencement of MetroLink construction – hopefully it’s started in the lifetime of this government so it can’t be shelved again.
€4.5 billion for Uisce Éireann should help ease the bottleneck on the capacity to supply new homes – it stood at [35,000 as of the end of last year](https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/1215/1486623-uisce-eireann); we need it to be far higher.
Otherwise, there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot to this review, as far as I can see. Mostly just increasing capital budgets for the various departments (which is necessary, but doesn’t give us too much indication as to where the money’ll be spent).
Bam licking there lips at this
Bam and the moneys gone
Christ, you people are fucking miserable.
Is this what Boards is like too?