Staff Shortages in Ireland.

There was a time recently when FF seemed to be trolling people with their "look at these people new to the country get lonely new houses"

These were very clearly prioritised for whatever reason.

People aren't leaving direct provision, and immediately paying Dublin rents.

I remember during the time when there was a big push to end direct provision a couple of years ago, it was being compared to the Magdalene laundries. Disgusting stuff comparing refugees who decided to come here and all the services provided to them, with the unfortunate women sent into these who society completely turned their back on.

What people don’t seem to get is you can leave direct provision whenever you want but you have to take care of your own accommodation. It’s not a prison or a detention centre.

It's not on the NHS, private dentist, so I still have to pay, but it's so much cheaper than anywhere down here.

A medical card doesn't give you any priority in accessing healthcare.

There's no point denying a medical card to people with no money. Especially if they are coming from countries where diseases like TB and HIV are more common than here.

An 80 year old who doesn't qualify for a medical card would have to be quite comfortably off.

It's families with children who can struggle with medical expenses, but if they're in low paid work they have little chance of getting one. GP visit cards for kids are only very slowly being extended in age eligibility.

Theres a lot of vested interest in keeping rents high for the rich to make more money. When will people like Larry Goodman ever have enough money?

Extract 50% of poorer peoples incomes over to the rich and they get richer and richer...kind of like the English Landlord population centuries ago living off all the tiny irish peasants rents .

We probably are at the stage renters are peasants at this stage and Multiple property owners are Gentry landlords .

It's probably very hard to attract any sort of staff to whatever industry, if the choice of housing especially renting is so poor.

Apparently, there are only around 700 units for rent in the whole Republic of Ireland? Landlords can probably ask any rent. Sharing a place or lodging somewhere is probably the only choice for many.

Sadly this makes the country less attractive.

It's home that's why they stay and go back too. Besides those who have a gaff and steady jobs, especially couples, already are doing ok and seem resigned to the taxes and high cost of living.

Trying to move back after living in a lower tax lower cost environment though...feck me it is hard.

Nursing staff in the HSE has grown by over 5,000 during the last three years.

We overspend on healthcare, relative to the age profile of our population.

You would outright deny Irish students are homeless when there are many reports and articles, claim its not a problem because its been ' happening for years' and stoop to the usual emotional blackmail tricks.

Cognitive dissonance much?

Folks like you try to shut discussion down.

Its increasingly not working.

And in one year 70,000 Ukranian refugees and 15,000 other asylum seekers are better looked after than many of our students. That is a fact.

Are you disputing that?

I dont have problem with treating genuine refugees well, I do have a problem when our own citizens are neglected even though there seems to be vast resources available for others.

You try and **** on me but you don't give a **** about homeless students.

Rental income is already taxed on income instead of profit.

The rest of your post is CCCP rubbish, why would anyone bother to accumulate any wealth if its all going to be taken anyway.

It wouldn't really make any sense to tax landlords differently depending on whether they are mortgage free, interest only, repayment mortgage etc.

Allowing interest as an expense for HAP tenants only doesn't make any sense either. Either allow it for all or not at all.