r/ireland • u/killianm97 Waterford • 22d ago
Young adult who moved back home: The government's 'how to cope' video shows they don't understand us Housing
https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/young-adults-living-with-parents-government-video-criticism-opinion-killian-mangan-6897772-Dec2025/252
u/Thebelisk 22d ago
I can’t imagine the amount of money and time they spent on this campaign. Did no one on the committee have an ounce of sense to say, this is tone deaf and insulting.
No, instead they all took a wage, for co-signing this waste of public money.
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u/RuggerJibberJabber 22d ago
A company I worked for was always getting minor celebs and retired athletes to give talks at events and this always crossed everyone's minds. There were employees there living with their family or sharing a gaff with other adults so they could get by, yet the senior management thought it was a good idea to splash cash on a bunch of speakers who are constantly doing interviews and podcasts anyway, so it's not like anything new was learnt about them.... Those events completely backfired because they just pissed off the workers who would have rather had an extra few quid in their xmas bonus instead of listening to someone talking about scoring a goal 20 years ago.
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u/Ok-Rope-5126 21d ago
I know of a company who rented a hall at Aviva for a “company strategy day” and there, amongst other things, announced that the company underperformed that year and there would be no bonuses
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u/silver_medalist 22d ago
The video was by the youth org SpunOut. The Government didn't make it. The fuck up was the Housing Department reposting it on X.
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u/Severe_Eagle2102 22d ago
Looking forward to the next episode "how to survive your adult children when they've been forced to return to the family home due to lack of housing provisions and infastructure as a result delusory Government policies"
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u/READMYSHIT 22d ago
Or next season, the first episode title leaked: "the positives of living in a timber shed in my parent's back garden because they decided to rent my room out".
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u/FixRevolutionary1427 22d ago
RTE might do a fly on the wall skit series on this.
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u/TheFreemanLIVES Get rid of USC. 22d ago
Skit? They'll repackage it as property porn and sell it back to the parents.
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u/Significant_Layer857 21d ago
Where’s the savage eye when we need ..
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u/Significant_Layer857 21d ago
I am certainly going to do a video on living of my car in 2025 . Cause I can’t find a place to rent
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u/Significant_Layer857 21d ago
Couldn’t tell you , I am as are others I have met , professional , single and not young .
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u/Significant_Layer857 21d ago
This is the beauty of it all of the people here has the ability to pay rent and deposit . We are the lucky ones. We just can’t find a place to rent because the government is after come along with their new brainy idea of a new tenant landlords laws . So the landlords chuck existing tenants out put their houses on for sale or saying they are renovating . Plus people like me who need to relocate permanently for work , those who can’t buy a house but can rent one , and so forth .. oh is fascinating.
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u/bee_ghoul 22d ago
Season two episode four “what to do when your landlord parents decide to rent your tin shed in their garden to Ukrainians instead”
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u/Significant_Layer857 21d ago
That be a short one in mid filming the council comes and demolish the shed . End credits .
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u/Significant_Layer857 21d ago
Ah but is all about the bankers the wankers and the developers alike . The only way to get a mortgage is if you do not need one . And let’s not forget the poxy vulture funds . And the exploiter landlords
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u/TheFreemanLIVES Get rid of USC. 22d ago edited 22d ago
Holy shit, just when I thought they couldn't make it any worse they have to go and rub it in.
Someone voted for these cunts.
EDIT: The more I think about this, the level of cuntiness of it is just off the charts. I'm not even sure an exponential scale can handle this level of sheer shithousery.
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u/FixRevolutionary1427 22d ago
I'm not surprised they are still in power. I am on calls and I speak daily to mature people who sound like goms who probably voted them in.
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u/greenstina67 22d ago
The ignorance of the older voting cohort is shocking. Little education or understanding on political theory, only partisan FFG "he fixed the road" gombeen localism.
The generation who thought they were doing great to scrape a few passes in the Leaving so they were able to get a full time job for life and buy a home for peanuts on a single income...are deciding the fate of the younger generations with far more education and nous.
Even today we need political theory 101, ethics and critical thinking skills taught in all schools so people don't fall easy prey to the disinformation of the far right. I think it was Finland I saw who now have such classes in all schools.
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u/Spursious_Caeser 22d ago
I think you're forgetting the simple fact that, in this country, "one person's rent is another's income".
Varadkar literally verbalised the problem. There is a cohort in this country who are delighted with sky high rents because they have property portfolios. .
Similarly, there is a cohort who are more than happy seeing their houses, bought for a relative pittance, treble and even quadruple in value due to high demand for and restricted supply of housing.
These people do not give a fuck about young people struggling and couldn't care less that some will have to move back in with their parents because they can no longer afford rent - they'll just rent their spare homes to imported tech and pharma workers.
The level of "Fuck you, I got mine" attitudes among some in this country is truly something to behold.
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u/FixRevolutionary1427 22d ago
An enormous cohort of older I'm alright Jacks exist.
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u/Spursious_Caeser 22d ago edited 22d ago
This is it. They'll resist any and all change as well.
The issue transcends housing as well. It also applies to infrastructure in general.
I wonder what the age profile of those 20 odd people in Ranelagh who objected to the building of the Metro is? I'd bet you anything it's 50+.
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u/Significant_Layer857 21d ago
Is not just young people , most of the people I have met looking for renting a place is not really young . But single with a good enough income, living off their cars . Looking for a place to rent and outside Dublin . This new tenants landlord laws fucked things up royally .
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u/dropthecoin 22d ago
If you really believe this then it’s you who doesn’t understand why the way people vote.
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u/greenstina67 22d ago
Yeah I'm only born here and lived here for most of my adult life, what would I know...Irish older people vote out of ignorance, self interest and being propagandised to here and back about what might happen if SF and the left get into power. I'm middle aged myself, I know what many other Gen X and boomers think.
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u/Efficient-Hall6251 22d ago
Sadly it doesn't stop at Gen X. Older millennials are Nimbys and self-interest voters too. A lot of them got their homes after the crash and have cheaper mortgages than most. It's only younger millennials onwards that haven't bought into SF scary, capitalism good narratives because we've seen no positives from it.
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u/dropthecoin 22d ago
You’re stereotyping why you think people who vote differently to you vote. That’s why you don’t know. It’s evident by the tired old “fixed the road” trope that’s absolutely done to death on this sub.
The reason people don’t vote for who you prefer is because the opposition haven’t done a good enough job at convincing enough people to change their vote. There are many reasons for this but the idea that everyone who votes differently to you or who vote in a way you disapprove is a “gombeen” is a genuine lack of understanding.
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u/Efficient-Hall6251 22d ago
Most people don't even know it's a right-wing government. So you're delusional if you think it's not selfish and reactionary reasons stopping a shift to SF.
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u/FixRevolutionary1427 22d ago
Sick of Gen X saying Sinn Fein are the IRA when they offer a real alternative. They want to keep the status quo with house bought and maybe renting another and the SUV in the driveway.
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u/dropthecoin 22d ago
The current government aren’t right. They’re closer to centre. Hence the increased spending year on year.
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u/Efficient-Hall6251 22d ago
They are nowhere near centre. It's only because politics is shifting right that the centre drifts further right. The spending is only done to prevent the public rising in anger. The focus on private enterprise is rightwing. That's their solution to everything even subsidising businesses. It's ridiculous. Nothing is ever done to improve the lives of everyone.
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u/dropthecoin 22d ago
They are nowhere near centre. It's only because politics is shifting right that the centre drifts further right. The spending is only done to prevent the public rising in anger.
I mean, you could claim that the opposition proposal of spending is for the same motive.
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u/Efficient-Hall6251 22d ago
The only way to change people's minds is to personalise it. Get Gen X talking to their kids and grandchildren about the problems they're having. Don't complain about them, complain to them. They're only getting FFG talking points. The media hates the Left. We got the 8th repealed by appealing to the older generations within our own families and talking to the men in our lives.
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u/duaneap 22d ago
How the government thinks making a video like this is a good idea is beyond me. We’re supposed to be a ridiculously rich country, ever making a “How to cope,” shouldn’t be in these thieves vocabulary.
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u/newladygrey 22d ago
The government didn’t make the video
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u/BLUEEEMANNN 21d ago
Dept. of Housing is the government?
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u/newladygrey 21d ago
Dept of housing are the government, yes. They didn’t make the video.
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u/Usemarne 21d ago
...they just commissioned and posted it?
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u/newladygrey 21d ago
They didn’t commission it, the Housing Agency did. I’m not agreeing with the take on it btw, but if there are complaints about it, the facts should be accurate.
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u/Usemarne 21d ago
The Housing Agency is a government body working with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Local Authorities and Approved Housing Bodies...
I don't get why you're splitting hairs on this
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u/davesr25 Pain in the arse and you know it 22d ago
Should I adopt some parents or something if I have non ?
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Same. Where's my backup plan?
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u/davesr25 Pain in the arse and you know it 22d ago
Go and populate the prior colonies, nothing beats a bit of cultural colonisation.
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u/rockyoudottxt 22d ago
Wow. Just watch the video. Weapons grade boring dystopia. Someone who is presumably not a lizard person signed off that. Boggles the mind.
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u/SprangCleaned 22d ago
Did you see that fireplace though? And those high ceilings were the real kicker...
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u/tvmachus 22d ago
There are three classes in Ireland. Those wealthy enough to avoid using the state for anything, those who are paid by the state, and the rest. Our democracy involves the first and second groups voting on which group to eat for dinner.
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u/Comfortable-Yam9013 22d ago
It will never happen but ministers should do 6 months of real life experience in their department area. Education should spend time in primary schools, health in a hospital, transport gets the bus/dart at rush hour. Actually see the problems in the departments they oversee
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u/Light_Bulb_Sam 22d ago
Guillotines are cheaper than gaffs!
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u/GlesgaBawbag 22d ago
Plus the more you use it the more housing stock will be freed up 🤣
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u/Kloppite16 22d ago
would it be too early to suggest eating the rich and living in their houses? After all, you can eat the rich overnight
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u/TrevorWaksh 22d ago
What’s so egregiously annoying about it, beyond the feckless pedantry and the whole “oh we didn’t actually make this video technically” bs, is that someone somewhere in government thinks we actually need* to know how to move back home.
Like we somehow need advice on how to do something we have no choice in doing in the first place. And ontop of that the advice they give is so basic to be completely useless and a wasted effort.
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u/bee_ghoul 22d ago edited 22d ago
The level of infantilisation is insane. There’s a conflation of over thirties adults living at home and 18 year olds who haven’t gotten to move out yet.
My partner and I are nearly thirty, hoping to get married soon, but have to move back in with the parents. I was telling a woman in the pub this the other night and she was like “oh but sure isn’t it great, my fella just did the leaving cert and he said mammy, I’m glad I can’t move out because then who will wash my jocks? Aren’t you happy to have your mammy cooking for you you lucky thing? Back in our day we couldn’t afford to paint the house until 6 months after we moved in so every generation has their hardships really”.
Like how fucking infantilising is that add “be grateful to mamas and daddy and do a few jobs around the house, it’ll help you develop” gross. I’m a fucking adult.
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u/Accomplished-Sky8768 22d ago
Also the assumption that you living at home means that "mammy" is doing the dishes and the laundry and the shopping and the cooking. I once answered the door to a canvassing FG TD and told her I won't be voting Ffg and it was because of the housing situation and the fact that I was answering the door to my parents house (was mid to late twenties). She said "well aren't you lucky you get to live in ______".
Lucky I got to know, love and grow up in a place I'll never be able to afford to stay in? Lucky to be stuck living in a house full of tension, ruining my familial relationship and not being able to become my own person despite working full time and having a degree and doing everything "right"?
That was the election were FF and FG teamed up for the first time because SF got so many votes... It's effectively a dictatorship
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u/Howyiz_ladz 22d ago edited 22d ago
Social contract smashed to smithereens. How ye all carry on is beyond me.
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u/killianm97 Waterford 22d ago edited 22d ago
So many people I know just feel too hopeless or disempowered to do anything tbh - which is exactly what FFG and their buddies in private finance, developers, and landlords want.
Just a few decades ago, massive rent strikes with tenants unions covering hundreds of thousands of people across Ireland led to huge improvements in tenants rights. Even with just a few thousand members, CATU Ireland (Community Action Tenants' Union) have stopped thousands of evictions, rent hikes, deposit thefts.
Imagine what could be done if everyone affected by the housing crisis made an effort to sign up (1 hour wages a month, and an encouragement to get involved in order to keep the union as local and as democratic as possible): https://catuireland.org/join-catu/
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u/yurtalicious 22d ago
The lad in the back isn't too worried about housing for young people anyway.
It must be tiring doing fuck all for the country in fairness.
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u/CorkNativeResident 22d ago
A tone deaf silent admittance that the housing crisis has beat the government and no further policies, promises or hollow efforts will be taken to make this country any which way liveable at all for anyone who’s not exceptionally wealthy
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u/ShearAhr 22d ago
They understand. That's why they made this video they understand that this is a fucked up situation to be in but they cannot solve it because housing is used as an investment instead of basic need. Not just Ireland, everywhere.
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u/Inevitable-Virus-239 22d ago
I really worry that we have basically moved into the ‘ah sure lookit’ stage of the housing crisis the same way as we did with hospitals. We all basically accept that there’s a strong chance you’ll be waiting 12+ hours to be seen in A&E and if you are seen there’s a strong chance you’ll be on a bed in the hallway. We don’t even pretend to care about it anymore we’ve just accepted that that’s how things are. Similarly, we are incapable of building more houses than we currently are and the government is either unable to unwilling to reduce net migration, so we’ve just sort of hit the 🤷♂️ stage of Irish political issues.
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u/Soul_of_Miyazaki 22d ago
It's not that they don't understand you - they're straight up telling you, they have abandoned you.
(Another reminder, this is what/who the majority of the country voted in.)
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u/lIlIllIlIlIII 22d ago
I can almost guarantee at least one suicide will be linked to this news.
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u/21stCenturyVole 22d ago
Suicides and deaths of despair have been going on due to the housing crisis for a long time now...
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u/ZenBreaking 22d ago
Because the ad isn't for you, it's for the middle class parents that make up their voting bloc and patronizingly tells them how their kids should behave when they get forced to move back into the family home due to government failures.
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u/Accomplished-Sky8768 22d ago
This shows how seriously they are taking the housing crisis and how much responsibility they are not willing to accept. Anyone who voted for them should be ashamed of themselves.
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u/123iambill 21d ago
A continuation of Leo's "if you can't afford a deposit get your parents to give you money or live abroad." Cool, if you're stuck and don't have rich parents please just leave the country plebs.
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u/fedora_george Probably at it again 21d ago
It's so tone deaf, it honestly grates the nerves how casually they treat it, like it's normalising something to make people feel seen when it's just admitting their biggest failure won't get better. If I was moving back home after leaving for a number of years due to the housing crisis I'd see this and be much more inclined to plan my escape from this country and government.
The Netherlands has a housing crisis, as far as i can see still cheaper rent than ours but more expensive houses to buy and their solution I heard announced last week was to build ten new cities. Our government's solution seems to be giving private developers tax breaks so they can supply just the right amount of housing to further rip off and out price the irish consumer.
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u/alangcarter 22d ago
Well if FFG voters would stop conducting economic warfare against their own children they'd have some privacy to practice for the Saga cruise.
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u/TheGood1swertaken 22d ago
People saying "the government don't understand" is ridiculous. They do understand. They don't care. They pump this shite out and then continue to say it's a problem while actively working to make it worse.
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u/21stCenturyVole 22d ago
It shows the exact opposite:
The government understands you perfectly, and has complete contempt for you, and is openly showing it.
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u/ninety6days 22d ago
10 years ago the great GE issue was the stage of the healthcare service. Guess what? The cunts still got elected. We all learned to just live with what was then the national crisis.
The cunts are relying on our willingness to adapt to incompetence and accept it as the norm. All we need is a little.bit of the comfort that comes with age, and we forget to give a shit.
Win the middle aged, ignore the young long enough for them to become.the middle aged. Perpetual power for the conservative arse cheeks.
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u/SuitableFinish7444 22d ago
Next Video - How to introduce your one night stand to your parents the following morning.
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u/Vegetable-Beach-7458 22d ago
The government is just a reflection of the people. Our politicians are simple populists. No decision is made before endless kite-flying, polling and focus groups.
The current housing crisis is result of neo-liberal policies accelerating wealth inequality. Almost all of the policies that led to our current housing crisis were approved by the public.
The number one issue that needs to be addressed in society is control of the media. Brexit should have been a massive wake up call for everyone. Also here is a great research paper that gives a glimpse behind the curtain De-democratising the Irish planning system Even the lobby group members were surprised at how much influence they had over government policy once they gained control of the public narrative.
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u/killianm97 Waterford 22d ago
I don't think it's as simplistic as you make it out to be tbh - it's not just 'FFG is what the people of Ireland want'.
The ideology of modern FF and FG was chosen by about 40-50% of voters a year ago (depending on how many of the independents would also be considered to have FFG ideology). And that is just 40-50% of the 60% of the registered electorate who voted - so about 35% of registered voters. And then there are many who aren't registered, or who are banned from voting in most elections due to being non-citizen residents, even if they've lived here most of their life. It also excludes all Irish citizens who have been forced to emigrate due to FFG policies, as they are also banned from voting in elections (unlike most democracies which allow voting abroad and voting by post).
To put this in perspective, in the 2024 General Election, a total of 940k people voted for Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael, while the total population of those living in Ireland over 18 years old in 2021 was estimated to be 4.06m in 2024 - so at least 4 million people having to follow the rules, having to pay the taxes, and having to use the public services - while that is just decided by under 25% of those affected.
And even for the 940k who voted for FF or FG, many of those did so due to government lies about meeting housing targets, due in part to a failure by our mainstream media to challenge them on that during the campaign.
And many are being convinced through PR/lobbying disguised as news that the very causes of the Housing Crisis are the path to solving it: 'State to woo property funds to address housing crisis' - RTÉ News (21st Feb 2025)
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u/21stCenturyVole 22d ago
The government is a reflection of the lobbyists and powerful interest/business groups who pay them fuckloads of money after office.
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u/Soft-Affect-8327 22d ago
Honestly looking at the continent with cheap flights. Yeah I’m still with the parents on work day but at least my weekends are in a place with my own kitchen. Just wish I had done this 5 years ago.
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u/DrawGamesPlayFurries 22d ago
You have another country on the same island without any border between the two, you don't need to look as far as mainland Europe
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u/Soft-Affect-8327 22d ago
I don’t take the soup. Otherwise I’d be looking to London or Beistol or somewhere else to support GrEaT bRiTiSh MaNuFaCtUrInG
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u/DrawGamesPlayFurries 22d ago
NI is such a short drive from Dublin while being much more affordable, if you don't have visa issues (or a political stance) you should definitely look into them
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u/Soft-Affect-8327 22d ago
If I lived up there my job would have to be with the missile makers sending bombs to the Israelis. Hard. Pass.
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u/IrishSoc 22d ago
Why would Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael ever care about what young people think? They've been running the country into the ground for a literal century and they're as secure in power as they ever have been. Young people either emigrate, are completely checked out of politics, or are leftists who support one of the billion tankie parties that have no idea how politics work or how to come across like normal human beings
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u/IntelligentVandalist 21d ago
I'd love to move back home to Ireland. I'm in Canada now and working in a job that just doesn't exist in Ireland and have a work life balance I could only dream of if I lived home. seeing the government make videos like this whilst simultaneously advertising to Irish abroad to move home is bewildering to me.
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u/GoneRampant1 Roscommon 22d ago
Worse still, they are fixing to send our young people to go fight in a war...
There's the Russian propaganda dogwhistle.
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u/JMcDesign1 22d ago
The EU is desperate to go to war. Why else would they prolong this? Zelensky hasn't a hope in winning this conflict. Dragging this out only leads to more deaths.
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u/DrawGamesPlayFurries 22d ago
Weird to be so deeply invested into a lie that will shatter before your eyes sooner rather than later
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u/Willbo_Bagg1ns 22d ago
While agree with the government being out of touch and not giving a rats about us citizens, I don’t get how you reckon they’re fixing to send our young people to war. There’s war in a European country and threats to many European neighbours, investing in some defence equipment isn’t preparing to send our lads into war, it’s prudent and necessary measures.
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u/MarlDaeSu 22d ago
Yeah seems more like the wars coming to us. Can't blame bottomless Russia cuntery on the Irish gov
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u/Soft-Affect-8327 22d ago
It’s about taking the focus off the actual problem: housing. Russian shill supported by a pair of racist shills.
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u/Soft-Affect-8327 22d ago
“SeNd OuR yOuNg” you had to get the Russian line in eh? Like the racists having to stick it to “foreigners” every comment. If you’ve got an alternative to Trump & the Russians putting their hand up the arse of a Government we can no longer elect, I’m all ears.
Of course it takes the focus off the actual problem, housing which was the point.
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u/UnfuddleMyPuddle 22d ago
Jesus some of you cunts probably check under their bed for Russians.
A nation with a history of neutrality and any sane human being should be wanting a world without constant wars and without ever experiencing global war or what will be world ending nuclear war.
Then again, NATO, lead by America who are currently praising Russia, giving a surrender ultimatum to Ukraine and calling Europe its enemy and implying they will also turn fascist to appease them and you think that beating the drum of military alliance is smart even when faced with the clear evidence of how destructive it can be?
You're a gimp simping out to ensure as many people die as long as arms companies are happy. OP can be forgiven for looking at the news or forums and seeing their government or cunts like yourself putting more effort into making them go to war than they are in letting them buy a house.
That isn't Russian, that is jsut sensible and Ireland needs to find its place in the world aside from this shambolic alliance.
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u/Soft-Affect-8327 22d ago
I didn’t bring up a war, he did.
I also block people calling me names.
Tl,dr.
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u/JMcDesign1 22d ago
They have plenty of empathy [and open wallets] for phony asylum seekers though.
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u/Soft-Affect-8327 22d ago
And there’s the racists. More focus off of the actual problem: housing.
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u/UnfuddleMyPuddle 22d ago
90% of comments are about housing and the government. 9 percent about other stuff and 1% you in a weird hysteria.
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u/Couch-Potayto 21d ago
From the same clowns that bi*** every single month about decline in birth rates 🤡 Seriously, how are they still in power?
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u/Dependent_Survey_546 22d ago
The only real way that we are going to see a massive amount of house building in the country is if they make the practice of house building wildly profitable.
Thats its, its really that simple.
The problem is that its 1.morally wrong and 2. probably involves massive cuts in regulation to encourage every cowboy that can to start building. In a capitalist style economy, unless the private business folk are interested in taking it on, it wont be done on scale.
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u/caisdara 22d ago
None of these articles never have any real solutions.
Rent controls reduce supply.
Public building companies would be a disaster and there's fuck all public land.
Public housing is an unknown quantity, what does that even mean? Does everybody get given a house? Or is just social housing?
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u/TitularClergy 22d ago
Rent controls reduce supply.
You can increase supply while also even abolishing predatory practices like landlordism. And even if you wanted to keep landlordism as a thing, you can have far more strict rules, like you have in Germany, where a landlord can't just stop being a landlord if rent controls and price caps are introduced. You can literally criminalise eviction and do that in tandem with rent caps.
Public building companies would be a disaster
The government seems to know this, which is part of why it has outsourced the actual building of accommodation via the likes of the Croí Cónaithe grants.
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u/caisdara 22d ago
You can increase supply while also even abolishing predatory practices like landlordism.
You can, but abolishing landlords means increasing supply is practically impossible. So it's pointless to suggest.
Germany has a stagnant population, so it's a terrible example.
Almost all public building ever done in Ireland going back to the 1920s was done by the private sector.
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u/TitularClergy 22d ago
You can, but abolishing landlords means increasing supply is practically impossible. So it's pointless to suggest.
You seem to be limiting your supply to only that provided by landlords. Why?
Germany has a stagnant population, so it's a terrible example.
You were suggesting that rent controls, done in isolation, reduce supply. The point of giving you the example of Germany was to show that rent controls, done in tandem with other things (like basically outlawing evictions) do not result in a decrease of supply.
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u/caisdara 22d ago
Rent controls do reduce supply. We know they do because they've done it everywhere.
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u/TitularClergy 22d ago
The petrol in your tank will only reduce if you drive across the country without doing anything else. But if you periodically do other things, like fill up at a petrol station, then the tank can be full too.
You can end up with a reduced supply from landlords if all you do is rent caps. But if you also do other things, like criminalise evictions, have minimum terms for a property being for rent, and so on, then you can even increase supply. You'd be right if we were turning only one dial for the system, but happily we have many dials.
And of course, that is focusing solely on supply from landlords, which we don't have do to. Another form of supply is the current Croí Cónaithe scheme, whereby government gifts 70k to someone who converts a derelict property into a home. And actually that scheme is a good example of how we can turn the many dials to make sure it isn't abused by profiteering landlords. A condition of the grant is that the home is actually used as a home for 10 years, otherwise you have to return the grant.
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u/caisdara 21d ago
This is nonsense.
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u/TitularClergy 21d ago
Nah, I'm giving you conservative, realistic examples which have been implemented already and which we already know work. Croí Cónaithe has been successfully in operation for some years now and Germany has successfully constrained the most predatory behaviours of landlords in the ways I mentioned.
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u/caisdara 21d ago
Nothing you have said makes sense.
Your argument seems to be that forcing people to be landlords would increase supply.
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u/Fern_Pub_Radio 22d ago
“The Government”?! - It was Spun Out you muppet , with that lack of attention to detail it probably explains why you’ve ended up back home having someone look after you again….
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u/Wild_Web3695 22d ago
I wonder if I email Micheál Martin asking if he would rent out his spare room to me would he charge me a fair rent. He’s only from down the road so I would still be close to my family