Ireland politics (Part 2)

[Tim_Riggins]

State built?

[Batigol]

Pretend built

[anon67715551]

Lego built.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@anon67715551

Labour targeting building one million homes in a decade, says Ivana Bacik

Party leader addresses conference in Cork, condemning Government’s ‘catastrophic’ failure on housing

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Labour TD Duncan Smith and Labour leader Ivana Bacik at the party’s conference in Cork. Photograph: PA

Jennifer Bray

Sat Mar 25 2023 - 18:30

Labour leader Ivana Bacik has said her party would aim for one million homes over the next decade, saying “new thinking” is now needed on the housing crisis.

In an address to members at the Labour Party annual conference in Cork, Ms Bacik said that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are “perpetuating an unequal Ireland” and that she wants to achieve a “left-led green-red government”.

“Our ambition is for one million homes in 10 years, starting now. The State can, and we must, deliver 50,000 new builds and 50,000 refurbished homes a year for the next decade. In a strong economy with financial surpluses, we can do this. With new thinking and new ideas, we can do this. With a national housing emergency causing suffering for thousands, we have to do this. That’s our ambition for housing.”

Ms Bacik also said the party wants to introduce unlimited bus and rail journeys for €9 a month and a new tax on SUVs.

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She also pledged a pay rise for workers and free GP care for all under-18s.

She said a new government “must be a constructive force for progressive change”.

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“The current conservative Coalition is just not working. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are perpetuating an unequal Ireland. This Government is lurching from crisis to crisis. They are failing the people of Ireland.”

She said there has been “a catastrophic failure to deliver on housing.”

In her first address to Labour members since she became party leader, Ms Bacik said the “Government has turned to the private market to solve its own mess. And again and again, developers, speculators and land hoarders have shown that they can’t and won’t deliver the homes our communities need.”

Ms Bacik said that a young mother recently contacted her “in despair, facing the cliff edge of eviction next week, with no prospect of finding another home anywhere in her community. And she is just one of thousands.

“A home is a basic human right.”

She reiterated that the Labour Party wants to extend the eviction ban. The party will bring a motion of no confidence in the Government this coming week.

“A Government that is out of ideas, and out of time. A temporary extension of the ban would provide breathing space to increase housing supply. Not just to ramp up the tenant-in-situ scheme, but also to tackle vacancy and to undertake a massive rapid-build housing programme on public land.

“And to introduce a new ‘use it or lose it’ rule to stop speculators from sitting on inactive residential planning permissions in rent pressure zones. We have a crisis. We need urgent action.”

It was vaguely reminiscent of Alberts promise to deliver millions of telephones in the 1970s for which he was widely ridiculed but which he ultimately delivered on.

[Rocko]

Ivana seems to be backtracking already. She’s now claiming the 50k retrofit homes per year includes currently occupied homes.

[Fagan_ODowd]

I thought it was a very uninspiring speech in general.

[Cheasty]

“The Ditch” had an article the other day which had a headline abut Eamon Ryan having blood all over his hands, which basically went on to accuse him of being a murderer.

Not a serious publication, but funded by chaos agents and corrupt narcissists who obviously support Russia.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Cheasty

“The Ditch” had an article the other day which had a headline abut Eamon Ryan having blood all over his hands, which basically went on to accuse him of being a murderer.

Not a serious publication, but funded by chaos agents and corrupt narcissists who obviously support Russia.

Was it them that had an article about him going on a cycling holiday to China when he was a youngster?

[Cheasty]

I don’t know but a quick Google would suggest that one of the primary “writers” for The Ditch, the same chap who wrote the hit piece of Ryan and “blood”, himself has a history of working for a Chinese state media propaganda rag.

Eoghan McNeill is a journalist who had formerly worked for the Irish Independent, China Daily and the Cork News. He had also worked for Cosgrave’s Web Summit in the past.[1][2]

[glasagusban]

I though Labour couldn’t sink any further or be any more irrelevant but in fairness to them they keep plugging away and finding new ways to be absolutely shit. This is pure bullshit from Bacik. At least Sinn Féin have some detail behind their housing plans. The sooner labour shuffle off the stage the better.

[anon67715551]

The odd one or two Dublin based posters will not be overly chuffed with your precise analysis.
You’re right of course but we’ll await the line “longest established political party in the state”.

Drowning man clutches empty pizza box ……

[Special_Olympiakos]

As soon as one is out of the Carrington purchased pyjamas I’m sure he’ll have a retort here

[Cheasty]

Serious ooooft here by Roderic O’Gorman in response to that vile right wing bigot Sharon Keogan.

Green Party Ireland

[glasagusban]

That’s a proper ooooft. Have her tweets been reposted on here? I think they have you know.

[Cheasty]

Sharon Keogan is a far right weapon.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

brilliant

[Juhniallio]

Fucking brilliant. A dignified skewering. Fair fucks roddy.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

@Special_Olympiakos @artfoley @tazdedub @TreatyStones were the main guys asking questions

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Cheasty

Serious ooooft here by Roderic O’Gorman in response to that vile right wing bigot Sharon Keogan.

https://twitter.com/greenparty_ie/status/1641403160315961345

Ooft

[Spidey]

Glad to give him my number wan