Ireland badly needs a new centre-right party - Here's my proposal

Building costs are cheap enough - the problem is land prices and profit margins.

Just leaving you with the problem of persuading several thousand Turkish (or wherever) workers to move to Ireland for €800/week (before tax), when their rent, in Dublin anyway, will be €1,600/month, minimum. And of course there won't be any trouble with Irish construction workers, or the far-right stirring up "They're coming over here taking our jobs!" bollocks.

We already have a Mica scandal now the government follywombles want to get exploited labour to build stuff, what could possibly go wrong,

We need to convince more people here to take up a trade. Having the highest rates of college attendance is great, but not so great when you can't get a plumber or electrician.

We also need to encourage the Irish trades that emigrated after 2009 crash to return. (Yes, housing them is an issues, yes)

I accept that all of my suggestions might not fit neatly into what other people define as "centre-right".

Yes, we need to radically cut the cost of development land. I am open to how that could be done, and you suggest SVT / hoarding taxes, etc., I agree. For example, the former Hickey's warehouse site on Parkgate street, Dublin sold for 30m, meaning any houses built there have to be expensive. I suggest that site should be 3m. Yes, I agree that this might need a constitutional referendum, but the housing crisis is so serious, that radical measures are required.

(if that sounds like a SF policy, I see what you mean, things are so bad in housing now, that centre-right politicians must accept that the market can't or won't solve the problem)

Turning to finance, yes, the ECB rate is low at 0%. But here is what I hear directly from a financial controller of a property developer:

they can't borrow at all from banks for sites/land without planning

with planning, banks will lend 60% (senior debt) at 5% or 6%, way too high

they put up 20% equity themselves

the remaining 20% is borrowed from mezzanine financers, often foreign lenders, at rates over 10%!!!

This results in very high finance costs of 16,716 per house in the GDA in 2020

Id say they are a populist party rather than a socialist one

I think the government plan calls for 20k housing units to be built every year whether this happens is hard to say. 35 per cost rise in housing materials, the supply chain crisis will make it more difficult.

I always thought Fianna Fáil were the Conservative and fine Gael were Liberal slightly left wing party

Ireland was one of the first country's to bring in gay marriage most young people are Liberal or slightly left wing

There clearing forestry at a high rate up here, how long it takes between felling and market?, a lot of the other stuff is already easing,

Not free,and rent will be deducted at source,money returning to the state not some tax haven

All parties except FFG have proposed it