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   @teapot6219

   March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

   Its horrific, we're seeing a huge increase in homeless pensioners who rented all their lives as rents where affordable in years gone by but are now unaffordable and theyre being evicted from their homes. In 2010 it was very easy and doable to rent on a small wage or while in college, now fully grown adults with good jobs and ten years of working experience are living in their childhood bedrooms, well beyond being considered a 'young age', their are adults in their mid 30's, 40's and beyond living with their parents. Ireland has the highest number of single adults in the history of the state as the housing crisis is directly effecting peoples ability to have intimate and romantic relationships & as a result the birth rate is dropping amongst Irish people. In addition to this the government has taken in 100's of thousands of refugees and asylum seekers who they cant house. They have bought off hotel owners to provide accommodation to asylum seekers at 50 euro a head a night, filling 80 room hotels with 500 people in some cases. This is desecrating the tourism industry, they almost gave student housing to asylum seekers which would had left thousands of young people unable to attend college, mass protests involving Irish universities prevented this from happening. Anyone who questions the governments policies around asylum seekers is labeled as far right and racist by the government. They have now started to run out of hotel spaces so hundreds of asylum seekers are left homeless across the country. This is in addition to our 15k homeless numbers (not including hidden homeless). Social housing has up to 25 years of a waiting list, some people are moved up or down the list depending on their circumstances but generally, the average wait time is 10 years.

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   @TheQueenstownHeraldTribune

   March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

   Theres no crisis. Once people look after their parents and stay humble

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   @aez48843

   March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

   We’re so underdeveloped for “tHe HiGhEsT gDp”

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   @Matt-ou7tu

   March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

   Irelands economy is a fraud.

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   @piecefcake7

   March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

   If you're in Ireland, join the tenants union CATU, it's the only way we can fight this madness

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   @Dennon19

   March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

   Muslims…

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   @rossmcgrath5660

   March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

   Irish GDP per capita has been grossly skewed by multinational business figures, which pay little to no taxes – when they’re taken out of the equation it’s a fair bit below that

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   @myonlybiasisyourbs4716

   March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

   😂😂😂 Ha ha ha. . Pure "Shite!" As we,d say here IN IRELAND!! Or whats left of it. . You avoided mentioning the HUUUUUGE levels of forced new comers to this corrupt kip. Our politicians are total slaves to the corrupt EU and WEF agendas. . Our traitors are destroying the tourism sector and KNOWINGLY endangering the public here of all races and nationalities by dumping THOUSANDS of unknown to the system MEN ONLY GANGS. so do some REAL reporting.

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   @brendanstoran7555

   March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

   Is this a trick question? No one can be that stupid! There was a housing shortage before the doors were opened for half of Africa to come illegally 😡

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    @ihavenomouthandimusttype9729

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    Irish children suffer for the sins of their parents and grandparents. They then blame foreigners and the government they voted for.

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    @ihavenomouthandimusttype9729

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    A big issue is lack of infrastructure. There are no trains or trams in Ireland outside Dublin. None of those fancy underground trains either. All the jobs are in Dublin because its the only place with the infrastructure. Because its where the government is. So thats where all the houses are. But one small city can't hold 6m people.

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    @skyline.....

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    you need to be an immigrant to get a free house and welfare and free free with more free

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    @SB-nk8ge

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    We are fooked

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    @sean_haz

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    Social housing is a shit idea

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    @pyranna2003

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    "Either the targets are too low or don't get met" The targets are too low by design and even those low targets are missed, revised to a lower number then missed again.
    Leo Varadkar is on record saying he wants to be careful of building enough houses because it would reduce property values and property owners would lose money. The "housing crisis" is FG policy working exactly as intended. Making more money by doing less, it's genius. Morally bankrupt but genius.

    The number of houses being built either social, private development or self builds are all heavily supressed by government which in turn raises property values and rent prices. They are directly influencing the market and then try to point at the "marketprice" as something holy that cant be interfered with by mere mortals for any reason.

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16. 

    @bluebook709

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    My father was Irish, I was born in America. When Trump was elected I decided to leave the US as I thought the man was going to end the US and I still think that he is a Nazi who is not done trying to end the nation. I tried Australia but could not afford it on my pension so I went to Ireland where I am a citizen. But the rent was too high, and I got sick, nothing really serious but I found the healthcare system was a chaotic disaster. The final straw was the old bitch in the apartment below mine with about a dozen of her friends at 3 in the morning drunk and rioting in the courtyard of the apartment block (a man was stabbed and guards came) yelling up at my apartment that I did not belong there. Right, my family which has been buried in the same cemetery for 500 years and older but the rain has washed away the dates and names, but I don't belong. That attitude is what struck me as one of the least kind and most unfriendly, you are welcome there as long as you spend a few thousand dollars then leave. I have to say that Ireland has always had as its greatest export its own children, and the moment you step off that island you are no longer Irish to those who remain.

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    @markmcloughlin3711

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    endless illigal immigration

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    @MrConkerz22

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    14,000 homelesss in Ireland now.. and growing.
    This Gov needs to go.
    Majority of politicians are landlords who dont want to see rent prices decrease.

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    @agritech802

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    As an Irish person, I can say this video has misrepresented the cause of the housing situation in Ireland, just to give you one example, it says the cause of the housing crisis is bad government policy and that Sinn Fein purposes to fix the problem. However, Sinn Fein is one of the main parties who block every proposed housing development in the country. They are like Trump in the U.S. he's blocking the border Bill so that he can say there's a problem with the border and Sinn Fein are blocking housing initiatives so that they can say there's a problem with housing. The only difference is that Trump is leaning towards three far right and Sinn Fein are leaning towards the far left.

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    @benjaminfisher8120

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    Sad to see people still thinking rent control is the solution. Rent control will only decrease supply and lead to further shortages.

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    @seanconroy7222

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    The real reason is that we are being invaded by the third world. They are being housed before the Irish people.

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22. 

    @heilong79

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    The multinational companies bringing in rich employees from abroad to work in Dublin and pushing up tental prices in the city center that spread outwards. Did not help either.

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23. 

    @RedGoobler

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    Omg so many mistakes. Doesn't anyone fact check this?

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24. 

    @no4365

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    Irish people also seem to have an intense distaste for midrise apartment compelxes, considering they barely exist.

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25. 

    @no4365

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    Ireland keeps electing the same two neoliberal, business friendly political parties.
    Nothing Changes 🤨

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26. 

    @nekelly123

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    The current government is determined to destroy Ireland with their globalist policies.

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27. 

    @yoboibigdad6503

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    SHORT ANSWER: THE GOVERNMENT IS AGAINST THE PEOPLE, SIMPLE

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28. 

    @boxz1984

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    Its greed of the ppl that drives prizes up

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29. 

    @googler38

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    The problem is the government

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30. 

    @johncallan3720

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    €48,000😂😂😂😂 the average wage is 30,000 – 35,000

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31. 

    @bassboss6672

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    It still bugs me when english people talk about ireland..I'm irish and hate England with a passion😂

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    @billturner6564

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    When your country is run by a treacherous elite and they fill your country with foreigners to such an extent that there's nowhere to live you know you're an island

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    @Goddess.Boann.

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    A big issue with housing here in Ireland is the number of ministers in the Dail that landlords

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34. 

    @josephmarch7142

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    Being here in Dublin is difficult. Doesn't seem to let up.

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35. 

    @emeidocathail7808

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    You will own nothing and be happy.
    It’s all part of the plan.

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    @user-zm3cq8nu8x

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    Got atleast 79percent wrong

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37. 

    @Tychoxi

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    i hope sinn fein expropiates the fuck out of it 🥰

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    @BI_Polar_AL

    March 2, 2024 at 12:43 am

    wouldnt say Sinn Fein have anything to do with the IRA these days, they just tax drug dealers nowadays

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