He’s giving Champ the runaround. A very statesmanlike performance.
Is Leo rattled?
The laziest trainee Dr who has no substance… who’d have thought!
2 failed Ministers for Health debating the flaws in our health system. You couldn’t make it up.
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I can’t believe Leo doesn’t reply to the buying a House at 24 was essentially crazy anyway. Mortgages were being thrown at every Tom, Dick & Harry to the eventual collapse of the banking sector.
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And he has previously said he was in negative equity…
Exactly, I’m personally blessed I held off when all around me told me I was a fool not buying a House in 2008.
If I had done so, I’d be fucked.
When everyone talks about affordable houses, are we talking in reality about High Rise Ballymun style schemes again? I can’t understand how they plan to build accommodation at a Price with quantity in any other way.
Building 3 bed Semis to proper spec at affordable prices in Dublin is a pipe dream.
Every other city in Europe builds upwards, why can’t we?
No. I’ll post when I’ve time.
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Leo clobbered him there on the housing saving scheme point
This is very doable
I found Leo’s point about “second hand” houses a strange one
he did, well obsesrved
FF called a timeout there alright- pat obliged
from MDF?
See this makes sense but no one seems to want to talk about it. Instead they want to choke up Dunshaughlin, Clonee and other commuter towns. It’s crazy.
Champ is very dull.
A boring debate. Martin is dreadful. Leo’s fake empathy is grating but at least he has an angle. Martin has nothing constructive to say. All very vague.
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The point is that if a scheme allows you to buy second hand homes, all you do is flood the existing market with new buyers, which just drives demand in existing stock and prices go up. If you limit it to new homes, it creates a demand there only and it incentivises developers to build new homes cos there’s a better demand for new homes.
It’s by building on public land with a builder rather than developer with profit.
Developer can’t deliver a 2 bed apartment in Swords for €260k but that’s all they’ll get for them so they aren’t building them. Without land cost and the council employing a builder direct they can deliver them.
A Developer can build an apartment in Clontarf and sell it for €600k with nice profit.
Labour is an issue but with proper planning and incentives this can be overcome.
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9 Years is all he’s got. But supporting it all is despicable.