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

"The majority of new recruits coming from non-EU countries, particularly India and the Philippines.

Some 1,584 new registrants qualified in Ireland, and 4,542 qualified outside the EU – a rise of 50pc."

We're importing very large numbers of foreign nurses to try and fill in the gaps, but at the same time losing more experienced/senior Irish nurses. 75% of the new nurses we hire each year are now non-EU nationals. Thats the definition of a recruitment crisis, if you're having to import thousands of people a year to fill jobs you can't fill from your own population.

And even with this massive importation we're still far below the capacity increase required to actually staff our hospitals to the levels required to function - as seen above, and in plenty more examples if you care to look.

Our staffing numbers are required to increase significantly each year just to stand still due to 1) our massive population increases 2) our aging population and 3) understaffing hangovers from the 2010s austerity years.

AFAIK, the trade unions are against a Dublin allowance.

Don't those "outside" forces become "inside" forces once they emigrate to Ireland?

Or do you only count the pale ones?

You're comparing Dublin to the most expensive cities on the planet, global metropolises with populations up to 10 times our size, with vast concentrations of wealth. And cities currently notorious for their own worst in history housing crises in Australia. Dublin is a small, regional city. With a very low population density, ie plenty of underutilised land. Theres absolutely justfication for our housing prices being on par with New York or London.

Averages are always skewed by the high outliers, median is a far more reliable figure. That aside, what use is an average wage of €82k, heavily influenced by high wages paid to those in the force 20 years+, to a young garda earning €35k trying to rent in Dublin? There are far more of the latter. And the latter are the ones who we're having huge problems recruiting and retaining, because they can't afford to live in Dublin on that wage.

Those pesky foreigners. Making your coffee, delivering your take away, driving your taxi, keeping your banking app secure, wiping your granny’s arse in the nursing home,saving your life.

The funny thing is, Ireland was in the stone age compared to other European countries before the Celtic Tiger which is, largely, foreign investment. Now Ireland is rich thanks to them and in a much better economic position. If you want to remove migrants, you would need to simultaneously, remove foreign investment. Because, let's be realistic, these companies are the ones bringing in immigrants to work in Ireland and a huge reason why Ireland is as rich as it is today. Under your rhetoric, you should remove them as well because, ´´hey, they're the reason why housing is as bad as it is now right? Let's remove them and we shall be much better off´´.

Now, you've mentioned some other nationalities (non-EU), which you said don't help employment and basically are the ones needing housing and at the end of the day, the ones which are bringing on the strain to housing in Ireland (with the additional other foreigners who are employed).

Do you know how many Irish nationals are living off welfare? How many Irish do you see on the streets begging for money on the streets? How many Irish people are capable of working yet choose not to? Guess what, they basically get free housing, food, health etc. Yet they are not an issue to you are they?

Go to other EU countries. Spain or Italy for example. They have a much bigger immigration influx than Ireland has ever, and maybe will ever have. Housing crisis in Ireland is not due to immigration but the lack of construction which falls on local authorities and government. They knew how many people were coming it. They knew the businesses setting up in Ireland. Perhaps they did not do enough to make sure there was accommodation for everyone.

Can you imagine if the United States back in the day where Irish fled the country to the US, that it was the Irish that were the cause of all their housing issues? Come on...

Every country has their immigration issues, no doubt. Ireland as well. Removing immigrants form Ireland would bring Ireland back a few hundred years.

...in modern advanced financialised economies, such as ours, theres a relative free movement of capital, hence why we now experience a significant amount of involvement of sectors such as the shadow banking sectors, i.e. investment, pension funds etc etc, such entities have had an almost endless access to cheap credit over the last few years, particularly during the qe periods. this in turn has caused a significant increase in the price of assets such as property, so actually, prices can in fact increase in such markets, without having much actual demand, i.e. its a money(credit) fueled process, and then of course since our building capacity has effectively collapsed since the previous crash, all this is now adding up to a monumental failure, with virtually no solutions, again, very little to do with the foreigners, but policies that have been implemented by us, or on the behalf of us....

Artificial demand, financialisation, and commoditisation of the Irish property market was introduced and built by Irish people, no one else.

Blaming it all on 'foreigners' just exposes you as a xenophobe, so it's rather pointless debating the issue with you.