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

SF are a bunch of morons and anyone who votes for them is also.

Anyone can make false promises.

Mary Lou studied English Literature AFAIK. So what does she know about the construction industry.

The IRA were well known for being anti drugs whilst taking money from drug dealers. They were doing this in Dublin not too long ago.

The best we can hope for is construction capacity edging upwards and home completions also.

We could hit 35,000 units next year definitely.

We can then increase incrementally towards 45,000.

FG performed an economic miracle. They took us from the brink of disaster to one of the best economies in the world in less than 10 years.

They're obviously not perfect but they should be commended for what they've done right.

I see no competence or intelligence in SF. Just populist bluster.

Also you don't need to spend €1500 on an apartment. You can house share for €700.

Alternatively you can rent a brand new 2 bed apartment for €2100. Assuming no couples, put one person in the sitting room and then a bedroom each, which works out at €700 a month which isn't bad.

Almost every western city is in a housing crisis and we're doing better than others.

Also the housing crisis is at a turning point at the moment based on data.

Though I think going forward I think we should be aiming for a target where, say, a single person on an ordinary wage in Dublin can afford to rent a one bed apartment while saving for a deposit to purchase a similar type apartment.

A job that pays sufficiently well that he can afford 1.5k per month rent?

Apartments are incredibly expensive to buy unfortunately.

Now that is an utterly stupid question and statement. You are validating the earlier poster’s point about voters who take SF’s offerings as being well founded.

Is it really home ownership then? i.e. really much different from state provided social housing but even harder to move on from.

If I decide to move, the cost to me is the difference in actual value of my current home vs. the home I want to move into, less costs, if I had one of these homes, the gap, on a house I've already been paying a mortgage on for many years, is the new house cost minus the much bigger gap to the "affordable house" cost, whatever that is set at.

I think it's pandering to the "forever home" group, but most with the means to get a mortgage would also understand the need to be able to move at some point, whether for family/career/other country opportunities.

1) So you're telling me they've ignored shortages of doctors too, and now there fobbing the problem off, no doubt at great cost, to a second rate education system!

It and pharma students get paid through springboard. Not at undergraduate but huge investment in conversion courses. Apprentices get paid (very poorly) but perform a lot of labour too, and in my experience that labour is very often not training related.

2) The state isn't building the children's hospital, it's been outsourced to the private sector. See how that's working out? See also 500k for one bed apartments. Outsourcing to our dysfunctional construction market, may as well hand the gougers a blank chequebook.

I think I speak for most of us when I say we assumed you were complaining about the low wage paid to apprentices while training, and then compared it to unpaid undergraduates. Now it seems you are comparing it to people who avail of the springboard scheme.

So just for clarity, complaining about the low pay of apprentices, is fair enough, but when you take into account the fact that the vast majority of undergraduates are unpaid, your complaint loses its merit.

The State most certainly is building the Children’s Hospital, The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board is responsible for overseeing the design, build and equipping of the new children’s hospital. 

I’m sorry, but I refuse to believe you have an economics qualification.

The state is building it. THey tendered for the construction company to carry out the work instead of creating a construction company themselves.

All of the reasons outlined already on this thread would say why the government wouldn't create a building entity that is owned and operated.

Would you prefer the government to create a construction entity just to build one hospital?

A person building a hospital is going to have the same skill set to build a house?

That analogy is totally irrelevant by the way.

No it's not. People all over the World house share and a lot older than 30.

What age do you think is the cut off for house sharing?

How do you know the party is "doing nothing for you"

If you read the policies that Sinn Fein have released it will mean they are doing nothing for a lot of people as well.

A 30 year old "stuck paying 1500" could be the exact target for Sinn Fein and the ever changing "tax the rich" so he/she/they will end up still "stuck paying 1500" but paying a lot more tax on top of that and even further away from owning a house

Again.

The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board is responsible for overseeing the design, build and equipping of the new children’s hospital.