"average Dublin house prices should fall to ‘the €300,000 mark" according to Many Lou McD.

Again none of that addresses the issue that previous generations were easily able to afford home despite not putting as much effort into educating themselves and progressing in their careers.

Population of Ireland has increased by 30% in the last 20 years and the number of houses being built has not kept pace with that demand.That is the issue.Until people accept that not enough houses are being built to cater to our population then nothing will change.

More houses need to be built. Simple as that.

Everyone's earning capacity can't be increased if it was it would mean we would have a society with nothing but managers and nobody doing any work.There is a shortage of supply of housing , this needs to be addressed.As I said in an earlier post there are ways to do this:

• So many empty houses all across the country that have been allowed to rot, this issue could be addressed fairly easily of they wanted.
• Allow more high rise apartment buildings in cities.
• Build more houses in areas that need them.
• Start training programmes to get unemployed people off the dole and into a trade so this reduces the labour shortage, seems the lefties in Ireland like to let the unemployed rot for eternity rather than do something to improve their lives.

Which generation were easily able to afford a home?

The problem with this, as with a lot of other suggestions on this thread, is it only works if a small number of people take this course of action. First of all, having say, a masters degree, only helps your earning capacity if you are one of the few people with one. If everyone has one, you won't see much of an increase. Secondly, even if everyone's earning capacity increased by, say, 20% most this increase would be swallowed up by the subsequent rise in house prices as people compete to buy a limited number of houses.

This is also the problem with suggesting that people buy more outside of the main cities. It works if you are one of the few people doing this. Otherwise, you simply get prices rising in rural areas as people from the cities compete to buy in those areas. You are simply spreading the problem around, not solving it.

How many empty houses are been left to rot? will people move into those houses if they are up for sale? do you think houses in Mayo are going to fix the housing crisis in Dublin?

I agree on high rise apartments in Dublin, in reality they should stop houses now and just build apartments for 5 years

Very easy to say build more houses in the area that needs them, in reality in cities it would be better to knock houses and build apartments instead because the area's people want to move into doesn't have the space anymore

Very few people unemployed in Ireland anymore, most of the ones who are you will never get to work. We are down to 4.8%, how many of them will be on long term sick leave etc. As I already said you have some people on unemployment which no matter what you do they won't work. Plus the money it would cost trying to get them to work would be better spent on houses

because Irish people largely aspire to work as nurses, teachers, accountants, business studies jobs. Very few Irish people want to work in tech or STEM roles. The people with an interest in these sectors study them right away after school. The other 80% are not largely not going to "upskill" into them. They are instead going to be pissed off that their own masaters isnt enough to buy a house

If you really were terrified then you’d be motivated to do something about it.

Instead you prefer to moan on an internet forum because you have to buy your designer clothes in Dublin and not New York.

Well, we've a much higher participation in higher education than a couple of generations ago. But the point is that merely increasing peoples earnings is not enough as you need to take into account the rising of house prices due to those increased earnings.

If you want to make houses more affordable you've got to target impediments to supply such as councils and speculators sitting on potential development land, inefficiencies in the planning system, vexatious and scam objectors, nimbyism and so on. Then introduce tax incentives to build in targeted areas. Attract inward investment in developments to rent and so forth.

Seriously do you really think it's costing north of 1k a day for PAYE, payroll, insurance etc for someone whose wages for an 8hour day come to just over 200???

Oh do share your sources for that!

Price gouging at a time of shortage is what's happening, plain and simples.

Will people move into the village?

So you want the government to step in and tell a person they cannot own a house and they have to accept selling it to the council?

Not sure you will get much support for that.

There's no political will to institute anything like that in Ireland.

FFG certainly aren't interested in it, that's for sure.

Yep. We have a ticking time bomb with regards to housing in this country and it's going to blow up in a lot of people's faces one day.

If that is indeed his plan, it's a damn sight better plan that anything FF or FG can come up with.

I'm not talking about CPO's. I'm talking about instituting a functioning long term rental market. Because what we have at present is an absolute disaster.

COmmercial or residential properties?