Couples on 107K can’t afford a home

Nothing new. It has carried forward from Bertie's days, were his policy was to remove the lower paid from the tax net. This is not the norm for EU countries, were most workers pay a small percentage of tax.

My prescription is due for renewal soon. Yesterday I rang 12 different doctors surgeries in about a 50km radius asking for an appointment and every single one of them said "we are not taking on new patients at this time". I asked a few if they had a waiting list most said no, one said they do, but they had been told to stop giving out the form to go on the waiting list. I felt like asking is there a waiting list to go on the waiting list.

Apparently anyone making the claim that Ireland is full makes you a far right sympathizer.

I am far from being right wing, but lack of affordable homes and lack of doctors appointments, in another thread there is a discussion on a lack of school placements. Surely we need to start talking at a national level about the fact we no longer have the room for the people who want to come here?

Vested interests fear mongering to stoke the property porn bubble.

Have we not seen this movie?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_estate

Go to the doctor that wrote your last one and spare us the melodrama

There will be no push back unless the property market collapses as there are too many snouts in the trough. And the big worry then is that those that are prudent and those who believe in fairness will have to bail out the people who were partying, again. Property and greed is the only show in town at the moment.

The social construct is destroyed and the idea of the State as a backstop to support the people, that a nation has an obligation of care to it's people and vice versa is now considered toxic and it is the left that are cheering it on.

You're not wrong.

But I think there's an unusual demographic with regard to residential stock.

None of it makes sense to me:

Like the number of vacant dwellings is high(ish), long term vacant is around 48k property's (This is in 2022 now)
https://www.cso.ie/en/census/census2022/census2022andvacantdwellingsfaq/

20% of landlords now own over 100 property's

There are lots of people "sitting" on property's.

Building costs are through the roof, developers claiming they make no money, yet sell an entire block of apartments to a rental company for below what they'd get for them if they sold them to individuals.

I think it must be case of the wrong type of home in the wrong place, or perhaps a cart before the horse approach regarding the economy.

Everyone migrating here to work, wants to work for a multinational in Dublin. None of those people want to live in an estate is the back end of Roscommon or Carlow, to far away, impossible to commute, as the rail infra just isn't there (and never will be might I add)

Sure even the prisons are jammed!

Cue the boomers regaling tales of how they went over to London for one Summer when they were 19 and stayed in a group house and slept on mattresses on sitting room floors surrounded by empty cans of beer from their sessions, and then asking why can 30-something professional couples these days not just link up with another 30-something professional couple and buy a 2-bed apartment between them.

I know lots of people earning far less than 107k that are buying homes now. That article is clearly clickbait.

That's the case with some couples obviously. But if you have a couple who are paying exorbitant rents then they might not be able to save a deposit. 107k is the gross figure not the net.

Long term renters should be entitled to borrow 5 times in excess of their salary. Their mortgage payments will be substantially less than their rent payments but for some bizarre reason we don't take this into account.

The system at the moment is designed to prop up mega landlords and pension funds. That's Fine Gaels policy.