2 out of 3 young adults living at home

… they will emigrate, more like it.

This argument that the government isn't addressing the housing shortage in order to placate existing house owners is out of touch with reality.

The government doesn't have the wherewithall to increase construction rates, that's what is actually retarding and limiting construction.

The construction industry is facing a labor shortage of about 500,000 workers this year.

The worker shortage is pushing up housing costs amid a national housing shortage. 

A lot of cities were forced to build because either the Allies or the Luftwaffe flattened them!

Here no one of any account really wanted to live in a dirty city centre. Everyone wanted to live in suburbia and the private car was going to be king.

The OP says 68% of 18 to 34 year Olds are living with their parents according to the 2022 census. I'm struggling to find equivalent data for 2016, but from what I can see it is not hugely different.

Can anyone help to get the comparable figures?

…its not, its anti-immigrant bollcoks!

Theres only one person who doesnt seem to understand the cause of the situation the country is in. I think you need to look at your own ability to assess a situation.

A person seeing an obvious cause of a problem is not a racist.

…we ve been trying this for decades now, and not just here in ireland, pure market based approaches for housing simply dont work, countries that have tried this approach are now all starting to experience the exact same outcome, i.e. serious supply problems, hyper inflated house prices and serious market dysfunctions, i.e. it doesnt work!

…we have no choice but to go back to more direct state involvement in housing, as countries that have done this, have in fact far more stable housing markets!

…the fantasy has in fact been that market based approaches provide better outcomes, this is simply untrue, particularly in relation to property!

Whoops, my bad.

I agree about the planning system, It seems to be universally loved even though it's an attrocious hiderance to everything and the source of almost all the official corruption in the country, all the way up to the highest office in the country at times.

I wonder how many went?

The young people living at home now with mammy and daddy will want the prices of the houses to decrease. Its ridiculous now.There will be another recession eventually and house prices will drop.

The world is very unstable at the moment with the wars going on. It could even burn into a much broader conflict. People don't want to think about that but it's in plain sight. That will affect every economy around the world if it happens.

Why I personally think that the market won't solve the problem of young people getting houses.

First (obviously) there are not enough houses, but that's actually good for the market as this drives prices up, there is no incentive for "the market" to kill its own profits.

Second, new available properties are bought by (another obvious statement!) people with money, that is those who are in good jobs for 10-15 years plus and saved up 60-100K — realistically, this is possible for a tiny proportion of young people (unless you count 40 year olds as young, but that's another topic!).

"The market" wants to get the maximum profit out of you. Fair enough, but that means that the most profitable scheme would be for you to work and rent from the market, spend all you earn, and not own anything.

If you want young people to stay in Ireland and work for socially important areas like education, the state should provide them with the means to get their own place to live. That is bring back council housing for working people.

Sure then you would have to deal with the internet complaining about the conditions of bringing workers over and sticking them in tiny rooms with no windows on a ship.

What? They have their own balconies!

This is on that same ship for sale I linked. If you follow the link there are more pics and some of the cabins are pokier, but still with glass doors to balconies.

It's the hypocrisy, he's quoted as saying; Financial advisor Eoin McGee says a young person earning €50,000 a year, who is paying rent and trying to cover the cost of living, will now take just over 15 years to save a deposit to buy the average house.

That to me seems like he was saying the system was broken, but now he's advising how to make it even more so.

Clearly you have never been on a cruise ship. The majority of the rooms are inside cabins. But sure buy enough cruise ships to give them all suites like the one in your picture :)

I have been on 2.

So you already knew that you posted one of the biggest and most expensive suites you can get on a cruise ship and that only a tiny fraction of your quoted passenger capacity would be in those rooms. The rest would be in tiny rooms. You probably also knew that you would require a massive crew to run and maintain that ship if there were over 2 thousand "residents" on it.