No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

By far the biggest failure of this government has been their housing policy, which is not something that happened overnight. They have been in power for over 10 years and it will be their lasting legacy.

Would sinn Fein have a better housing policy? Possibly, but the previous government has driven 1000s of workers away from the country due to their awful policy so there is no quick fix for this and it will in all likelihood get much worse.

+1 on all of this. I was just going to post something very similar but you summed it up better than I could.

A lot of the people that complain about everything don’t realise how a lot of countries are so mush worse off than us here. Yea it’s not perfect here and there are obviously things that could, and probably should, be better than they are, healthcare in particular, but by and large we have a good and generally well-off country to be living in.

The “get off your arse” statement is a million percent true as well. Far too many in this country happy to do nothing and keep the hand out looking for more all the time. They’re generally the ones that do the most complaining too as they’re the ones with the free time to complain.

Anyone watching the gigginstown sale. The lad leading the first bull around had a lucky escape, the bull turned on him

Well of course they are, but they're also pandering to anyone under 40 that will be more likely to vote for them. It's always easier to be in opposition and to criticize than to be in power yourself.

Your always going to have people who don't want to work and want handouts, but they can't all be painted with the same brush because they can't afford a place to live. It's because of **** policy and not enough social homes.

What's actually wrong with building fcuking houses? Is it begrudgery that a person gets it for nothing, or next to nothing? Is it a better option bouncing them around in hotels and costing money anyway? A small bit of socialism isn't actually a dirty word and can work, capitalism is supposed to breed competition but all it actually does is create monopolies.

Developers in Dublin alone r sitting on 40k permissions - so more developer led planning that gave us the likes of Fire safety issues, Mica etc. that r set to cost the taxpayer billions to fix is not the answer. The entire housing policy of FFG is to keep property values as high as possible

Where online was it?

+100. Only by chance came across the troubles podcast this week, it gives a fairly neutral view from what ive heard so far but it was absolutely eye opening to hear how the nationalists/catholics were treated up there how it was allowed to happen is beyond me.

How can Sinn Fein be blamed for the situation in the north at present when they were never the majority until now? The only reason theres no assembly there now is because the ball is out of the DUPs court for once and they are throwing their toys out of the pram because of it.

Imo the unionists are doing themselves an injustice by saying 'no'. Voters are fed up of electing ppl who don't take their seats. NI has the best of both worlds the UK and English markets. If I was an FDI and the situation was stable I'd locate there.

With regard to nationalist not getting a fair deal it's not black and white. Example: Jean Mc Convillie returns to West Belfast in her coffin and SF orders everyone inside....pure sick.. justify that.

The person that never made a mistake never made anything. When you are in power for 100 years of. Of course there is going to be plenty mistakes.

All of us landlords are not raking it in you know, we are being driven from the sector in our droves and the same with developers. They can't get the finance anymore because the profit margins aren't there. Building is just too bloody expensive due to the massive energy specs and building costs. But sure I'm sure SF and PBP will fix it with their magic wand. Actually PBP have legislation in front of the Dáil at the moment to start taking people's houses and moving in any resident of the state if there is a spare bedroom. Bunch of fruit cakes the lot of them.

We sold our rental. Partly couldn’t be dealing with entitles tenants and the risk of a SF government is too much. Estate agent said that 75% of rental business at the time was sales to private individuals with fear of SF government being prominent reasons.

SF voted for rising the pension age in the north while canvassing down here against it. I see little difference in them all, it appears to be a career choice and let the CS run the country.

FF seem to be keeping a bit nearer the SF fire

I'd say you should run yourself and sort out the whole thing.

Sorry anyone that refers to the Taoiseach as Leo the leaks shows where there party alliances are.

another person here who became an accidental landlord sue to negative equity. Also getting out of it as nonprofessional toon against tenants not paying and constantly looking for stuff tonne fixed , replaced. not risking a SF lead government here either. So that will unfortunately be another family looking for a new home due to the current constant media and populasist agenda about landlords .

being a landlord is not a vocation. It’s not up to the private sector to sort out the accommodation crisis. As in all countries it should be done in a commercial basis . However due to the left agenda people are leaving in their drives .

I guess it would be better then leaving in a totalitarian state where the government never changes, like some here seem to want....