I think the word you’ve substituted with smugness here is “young and posh”. That really seems to grind peoples gears
Eamonn Ryan’s vote could go up to about 18% in the current climate [excuse the pun].
A lot of that will be FG types who couldn’t vote for the rest of them. It could be enough to deny FG the second seat.
Im not too bothered by their backgrounds - just do your job.
no, haing been at school with leo, its definitely smugness.
Then why mention smugness …
Yeah, that’s possible. Transfers will play a key role too - with Ryan about the only candidate likely to get a quote on First preferences and FG the only party running two candidates.
Because they are inept and are smug in the face of it … I would have thought that obvious. You’re the one bringing their ‘poshness’ into it.
I’m suggesting they continued to use those figures and maintained they were correct for months when it had already been demonstrated they were wrong. That’s worse than ineptitude it was a deliberate effort to be misleading. He’s tried to massage and cover up homeless figures on various occasions too.
He resisted doing anything on both those measures, air BnB or rent controls for what, at least two years? That shows extremely poor judgement. The measures he has introduced have been ineffective, so no, I’m certainly not happy on that front. Another area that is still unaddressed is wrongful evictions, tenants have practically no comeback and there is not consequences for a landlord deciding to turf people out and jack up rents.
Of course the current crisis is an issue a long time in the making that will take a long time to fully correct, but the guy’s response has been pathetic and inept and he’s shown a tin ear to the effect it’s had on people.
I genuinely think he is a disgrace.
Hang on a second, wasn’t rent pressure zone legislation (i.e. “limits on rent increases”) introduced in 2016 and Murphy wasn’t even minister until June 2017?
You said he “resisted it for so long” - it was already in before he became minister
Ooofffttt Fine Gael stooge talkback taking glas to town
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Headshot.
Should we be building more houses given the climate emergency we are facing. Can houses be built in a carbon neutral manner
Cc @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy who might confirm what position the environmentalix amongst us should take. Perhaps there is a middle ground.
there were 19 RPZs in place when murphy came in. over the next 18 months he added 3 RPZs even though rents were rising. he finally got off his hole after 2 years in office and added a further 21. which is probably the resistance that glas is referring to.
so again, sitting on his hands while rome burns. but he can put on a hi vis jacket while not building houses and making sure the homeless stats are managed/late/inaccurate
That’ll be a ff seat. Cathal Crowe attached his colours to the mast first and has received considerable support.
Quoting volume of the RPZs is misleading. You’re imputing that the doubling of the number of RPZs meant he neglected half of the pressurised market was left to flounder.
The reality of the situation is that the places subsequently added were the likes of Fermoy, Gort/Kinvara, Arklow and Kells. The sizeable majority of the rental market is within cities, which were on the RPZ list immediately. There may well be rent pressure in the places subsequently added, but they’re a bit peripheral to the bottom line of the problem.
I think the electoral lines are also after being redrawn in his favour, with more of the Westbury wards coming into the constituency
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i suppose the point being that the zones later put on the RPZ met the criterion for addition back in 2017, but werent added until 2019
The Limerick wards
Weren’t the criteria tweaked in 2019 from the 2017 ones, allowing those to be added (i.e. they didn’t meet the criterion for addition as per your suggestion above)