2 out of 3 young adults living at home

The government will not let a massive increase in housing happen.

They are letting more and more educated immigrants in to the country. I work with an Indian guy. he told me Ireland has the cheapest student fees for foreign educated immigrants than any other. Its double the fees in the UK. 28000 euro. Here it's 14. Once these immigrants secure a job over 36000 salary they can get a visa. Stay here 5 years and permanent residency. These people will need houses aswell as our own and there will be a never ending supply of demand thanks to this government.

there is effectively no property tax here and the cost of building is so high, they need to build cheaper studio's and one beds etc and not on greenfield, miles from anything, they need to start building this on brownfield and existing business parks etc, beside good rail links ideally…

relocate dublin port… and possibly redevelop east point business park for housing only…

Your Indian guy - did he fail to mention the free tertiary education in Germany. Ireland is hardly the cheapest. I have read of American students who can't afford college in the US going to Germany to study.

One has aspergers and isn't cut out to work in a company environment - of all disabilities in the UK, those with aspergers have the highest unemployment rate - 78%. Their expertise and interest is in game development, and In the past year game companies have been laying off tens of thousands of experienced and skilled workers, entire studios have been closed. Microsoft just closed the Arkane studio in Austin, that produced the Arkane games and Prey, this past week, along with another studio in Canada and one in Tokyo.

The layoffs are further devastating news in the gaming industry. An
estimated 10,000 people globally lost their jobs in the sector in 2023,
and that number is close to being matched already this year.

The other is facing that old saw of no one wanting new graduates, only those with years of experience and that being very niche in the specific tools the company uses, which don't happen to be those that were learned in college. One avenue for getting started in employment is often with the company you interned with during studies, but they even lucked out there as that company only has senior positions and interns and nothing in between, despite reporting to the college they over-achieved.

Also, not being near Dublin is a factor.

I emigrated 3 times :)

Living elsewhere is fine for a while, but ultimately Ireland is a good country to live in.

Not Idle. One is futhering their self taught Japanese formally. The other missed out on a NATO contract for a military simulator, despite having one mostly complete, not just a blank proposal. I did find them a job description they agreed was a 100% match for their skill set, apart from the currently serving in the Ukraine military bit. Most things I have read on volunteering is that it doesn't work and is a negative, if anything.

fcuk the young, we dont need them anyway, as we can all work till we drop, ta hell with retiring and getting adequate health care as we age, just as long as property prices keep rising, happy happy days…..

Think you're trying to shoehorn something in here - these people are nothing to do with the housing crisis.

tis feckin great, and with an endless supply of taxpayers money, why didnt i do this sooner….

..jesus would yea stop with the neoclassical nonsense, house prices are largely due to financialisation of our property markets, and thats about it, thats the bloody core problem, its got little or nothing to do with anything else….

I find this low taxation in Ireland a truly amazing feat of financial engineering. I wish I knew how it's done, as none of the major taxation components are on the low side of the average, quite the opposite, usually they are all quite a bit higher.

Ireland tops the league for the cost of taxing and insuring a car, and is second only to Holland for the cost of buying a new car. https://www.independent.ie/life/motoring/car-costs-in-ireland-are-close-to-highest-in-europe-survey-reveals/26223392.html

Ireland has the highest death taxes in world

Third highest CGT rate in EU at 33%, except for ETF’s, which is 41% and where losses can not be offset against gains - *ucking mind blowing. Ireland has some messed up taxation **** like VRT and DIRT, but this one…

4th highest vat rate in the EU

taxfoundation.org rates Ireland’s income tax component in it’s index as being the 4th highest in the EU in 2023:

An overall low taxation rate when so many individual constituents of the whole are so high, seems nothing short of a financial miracle

Just as well we are so lightly taxed, given…