Unless youāre out of work and canāt make the repayments. I donāt think anybody really saw just how hard repossession would be.
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Anybody who raises this is seen as somehow against ānormal peopleā when the opposite is true.
The mistake people made from 2008 to 2012 and itās human nature is they chase the market. They are anchored to a price that existed 3 months ago instead of pricing the house at the price that will be in six months.
The same thing happens in reverse on way up I suppose. Anchoring is a very powerful influence on us all.
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I just got a letter in the door from an estate agent along the lines of āwe have buyers in your areaā
I love the smell of boom in the morning
Will there definitely be another bust?? We were told the last time that bust always follows boom and we were just too naive and harmless to see it
There could be a soft landing.
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I think you are right.
The fundamentals seem sound.
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Iād be interested in your prime location. No need to involve solicitors, Iāll give you a few K cash in hand for luck.
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You not down in Limerick yet? What are you waiting for. Prices are only going up forever.
This paragraph really jumped out at me:
And then thereās the question about what weāve got to show for this eight-year tax bonanza. Since 2014 corporation tax has exceeded forecasts by an average of ā¬1.2 billion a year but most of it has been used to plug holes in the health budget. Health overruns have averaged ā¬800 million a year.
Fine Gael, the fiscally prudent party.
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Thereās not likely to be any end to the corporation tax boom though. Whatās the trouble?
Heroic pro-business policies of FFG provide a boon to the health service is my reading of that. Sounds like the anti-business opposition want to deprive the health service of funding and literally kill people 
Do you think the likes of Robert Watt and Paul Reid would actually die if they had to take a salary cut?
We had dinner the other night with a friend of Ms Locke. She works in the dept of the Taoiseach. She said you cannot come down in pay as a Civil Servant and you canāt get fired/sacked. So say with Tony H, heās 56 or whatever so 10ish years left in him. If he was doing a shit job and was moved aside, they have to find another role for him and heād still get paid the same or heād do nothing, and still get paid the same.
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Snakes and ladders only the snakes are the pieces and thereās only ladders on the board.
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Whatās the cut off age for joining the civil service !
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No cut off. I might consider joining next time.
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Isnāt there an on-going case with a whistleblower from the agri sector. Heās arguing theyāve tried to do a McCabe on him. The worst they could do to him was take him out of the office, give him a pair of wellies and send him around a few farms. Still on same pay.
The first few years on a lot of the scales can be disproportionately low, and then you wouldnāt spend enough time to build up much of a pension pot, youād surely do better elsewhere?
Well weāve been told here by glas and art that there is now an extremely robust performance management system in place in the civil service so I think your friend is telling lies.
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I donāt know why the CMO job isnāt a contract job, it doesnāt make sense to me for it to be a job for life. People that are underperforming can be tackled but it takes serious work. At senior levels itās probably impossible no matter how bad they are, theyāll go to the high court if theyāre taken on. I would say that the stats on people āfiredā are probably not representative of the reality, lots of people will āchoose to resignā where issues are taken on.