FF/FG/Green Government - Part 3 - Threadbanned User List in OP

All the Garda rep organisations are piling on GSOC this weekend. They finally have a chance to discredit "Internal Affairs" and they will do so. It makes up for all the times the Gardai were made to look like lazy incompetent idiots (e.g. faking a million plus breath tests, quashing penalty points, smear campaigns etc).

With Collins it's a lava flowing volcano, he should be sacked

Well as you even say yourself, the problem is FG relying almost entirely on supply side solutions to housing since 2011. Thats been very deliberate policy.

Spending billions every year on things like HAP and first time buyers grants, instead of just having the state build housing itself, has been a massive factor in our current crisis. And a total waste of money on top.

The only people significant housebuilding would be unpopular with are landlords and REITs. The people being housed, renters no longer competing with HAP, SME business owners who don't have to pay their employees significantly more to cover high rents, large MNCs who can't recruit people to Ireland currently because of the rental market, people in general who don't like homelessness etc - the vast majority of Irish society support it.

Local NIMBYs object to certain local planning applications yes, but the population of the country as a whole is very in favour of significant housebuilding. As is shown in the polls, and in the support of every major party (even now rather belatedly including FG) for it.

To call significant housebuilding "deeply deeply unpopular in reality" is just completely factually incorrect in Irish politics in the year 2023.

Minister O'Brien has avoided live media since he was skewered by Sarah on Prime Time a few weeks back. I wonder have FF decided to allow FG to take the baton with their new ideas...perhaps a new Housing plan will be produced and TDs will go around talking about billions here and billions there while delivering SFA.

Near where I live a very large housing development of close to 700 homes has been inundated with objections from locals, county councillors and TDs. The objections are of the "I support housing developments but not THIS one because of xyz".

In theory everyone wants more housing......but just not next nor near them.

It's one lame excuse after another from the FFG fanboys in relation to the housing crisis.

If the government took the problem seriously they would have reformed planning laws and properly resourced ABP.

New home plans stuck as An Bord Pleanála delays grow | Independent.ie

Plans for tens of thousands of homes are caught in the growing backlog at An Bord Pleanála, where more than 2,500 planning files are now piled up.

About 27,000 houses and apartments are caught in that pile, plus 1,300 student accommodation units.

And in my own Galway.

Galway council chief ‘surprised and disappointed’ by An Bord Pleanála refusals for social housing in city – The Irish Times

Galway council chief ‘surprised and disappointed’ by An Bord Pleanála refusals for social housing in city

Planning body, heavily criticised at local authority emergency meeting, branded ‘a basket case’ who have ‘stolen Galway’s progress’

The chief executive of Galway City Council has questioned whether any land available to the local authority would “pass muster” as suitable for social housing with An Bord Pleanála, following a series of high-profile planning refusals.

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The housing disaster will get worse and worse even quicker than I expected. Many tradesmen are also emigrating because they cannot afford rent/houses.

FG have been in power for 3 terms IMO even if they managed to sort out housing and health before the next election they are still going to take a mauling.

Youd be hard pushed to find any working democracy where the same party governs for 20yrs.

id say mid to high 20's, will be the rtn, Leo will be jettisoned and a new leader (PD) will start the rebuild like Enda did after Michael Noonan.

SF and FF will do a deal and prob be in power for 2 terms before people become disillusioned with them as well.

Can't see new party winning a significant amount of seats to to sustain a challenge. Plenty of headlines about the end of FF after the 2011 election think they lost around 50 seats.

The PDS and SD should have hovered up that vote. FG were all about new Politics so they took it.

IMO The Irish electorate are very populist agenda driven, Big talk of Climate reform before last election Greens done well and low and behold looks like they are going to loose all their seat now because they are driving the green agenda.

When SF need to make the tough decisions and the opposition offer what people want the will fall by the way side aswell and we will hear how SF have let the people down. Rinse and repeate

Therein lies an issue, FF will jump into bed with anyone to retain power. MM today defending Collins was galling to listen to.

Think that Phelan was born in Waterford as were a lot of people from Kilkenny. :)

Regards...jmcc