As Ted would say though " that's a terrible defeatist attitude Dougal".😂 Ah really though, it's not surprising. This country has just gone beyond belief with things . I actually got lucky 6 years ago with buying a house for 145, 000 euros. 70 thousand now left on the mortgage. I can only imagine how fed up I would now be otherwise. I'm sure I would be contemplating emigrating.
And those Irish threatening to leave Ireland to so they can buy a house somewhere else usually go to those countries too. The anglosphere don't understand that this is a global issue.
@@josedacosta5197 Indeed. Even European countries in the east that might be considered less developed are hit by this. Makes you wonder why is this happening.
I emigrated to Ireland in 2012 for postgraduate education and I could live off my eastern European savings for about a year without a job. I integrated well and worked in Ireland many years before it became impossible to see a future for myself there. I worked in public sector and could not afford rent in a studio for myself. Finally decided to leave after the pandemic end of 2022 and have a much better quality of life in Eastern Europe. I remember feeling extremely fortunate to be able to afford a 2 bedroom apartment rent by myself here, it's insane how expensive life in Ireland is and it warps your mind. I'm much happier here and I'm able to save money, even if a house is still out of my price range, the prices have risen here as well in the last 2 years that you can't afford a house on one income anymore. I loved Ireland and had many friends there but it kills your spirit. I'm not surprised things have gotten far worse since I left. 😢
@@World36599 You're Delusional. They arrived, went to college, worked for 10 years, then emigratied, paying tax the whole time they were here. Not unlike the 70% of young people looking to emigrate now due to the state the govt have left it.
The issue lies in the fact the middle aged people with decent houses from before the price spike are going to vote the party that wants to keep their house at a high value. The parties more to the right that are aiming for better change in housing are going to plummet the persons house value. That’s why fianna fail and Fine Gael still get a lot of votes. Something needs to change as a native Irishman I love my culture but it’s being heavily disrupted over time.
@@galaxyred7 Exactly!! i keep saying the same thing to people around me but they refuse to listen. Yet it is obvious why most people vote FF/FG, they want to keep house prices high. So when we understand that, we also understand that the country is fucked since most people want to keep it that way.
@@gloriabartolome3123 as a 19 year old I’m incredibly lucky that I will inherit my sisters property out the back of my house in the future whenever she leaves. But I feel for so many young Irish adults rn
I emigrated to the US, from Dublin, in January 1990. At one point, I had in my mind to spend my retirement years 'back home', playing golf, fishing, strolling the hills, etc. Ummmm, nope.
Like the tax cut that triggered the massive growth in ireland over night and hoe much trump fixed on his first day. It is blatantly obvious whats good for the people isnt always good for goverment. If there were real consequences for the bidens of the world things would a whole lot better.
Same story in Canada and from what I've heard in Australia, most of Europe and South America...EVERYWHERE you go it is getting almost impossible to JUST SURVIVE... Yet people are looking at politicians to save them... They're in the millionaire club and WE AIN'T IN IT!
Most politicians in those countries aren't rich. Not saying they're necessarily struggling, but if the image you have is a bunch of wealthy people in top hats and monocles, you have the wrong idea.
Its the people who vote for FF/FG Sin fein labour green social democrarts are a disgrace sick of people like u complain remembers its the thickos who vote for them
They sold our country to the ECB and IMF for the bank bail out after being blackmailed into it by Angela Merkel with her threath to bankrupt the country if we tried to burn the senior bond holders . It's not our country any more , it's owned by the invisable people in the shadows of the IMF/ECB , they're the ones now calling the shots .
Twenty years ago Polish people came to work in Ireland because they had a poor economy.... Now Irish people want to move to Poland. Its scary how quickly this happened. The history books will look back on this period as a time were greed and corruption got WAY OUT OF HAND
I worked with a lot of those Poles back in the early 2000s. They worked their bollocks off and were great craic. When things picked up in their own country most of them headed home (to me that felt like around 2010/2011). I have a lot of time for Polish people. They set a great standard for what an immigrant should be and can achieve and I think Ireland and Poland share a lot of emotional ties (mainly around our Catholicism which, even though we Irish hate to admit it, has shaped and defined our country and its attitudes for centuries as well as being Europe's underdogs in the 70s and 80s when Britain were really sticking it to the catholics up north and Russia was breaking Poland's balls during the same period).
@@Etcher exactly the same story here... Im Irish too and have nothing but respect for Polish people, their work ethic is fantastic, they are resourceful and full of common sense as well as being friendly and polite. I've visited Poland on holiday three times as a result of Polish people iv worked with. To be fair they have a great country, there are still poor parts that need developed but every country has that. I don't blame them for going back home, I would have done the same
I returned to Ireland in 2007 after ten years in Finland. Even back then I got into arguments about housing and how it's completeled f**ked. If I wasn't in my 50's I would go back in the morning. - Stop investment companies. - Ban short term lets - Regulate the building industry
It has also killed the tourist industry. People used to flock to Ireland for trips and leave their money behind keeping Ireland green. Now it is too expensive and no one wants to experience riots, mayhem, poverty and homelessness on their holidays
@@somersetdc That is not true for a start. During the Summer, there was an American Football game between Georgia Tech and Florida State University, held in the Aviva Stadium and it had the largest attendance of Americans, of over 27,000, going to see a match outside the States..
That is a lie made up by your british handlers to force a partition on the Island of Ireland, according to Fáilte Ireland the total stock of registered tourist beds under contract for refugees was just 7% in 2024 compared to 12% in 2023. Between November 2023 and July 2024 the UK Government had weaponised over 7,000 refugees and forced them over the Irish Border, this was the number the Gardai caught..
Who owns Irish hotels? It's all going to natives. The money taken from natives is going back to natives. What are you complaining about? And most of those are Ukrainians that came as a result of Nato's expansion to Russia's borders. You reap what you sow.
Im Irish and this is a very realistic take on the whole situation. Rent is so high, buying a house is almost impossible. Irish citizens who have paid tax all of their lives are now left homeless, but the government seems to almost have an agenda to allow more unskilled, illegal migration / those faking true asylum or refugee status. Ireland has such a small population and a tiny infrastructure. When people say “Ireland is full” it doesn’t mean there is no land - it means there aren’t enough hospitals, houses, schools, care homes etc currently, let alone if we take in even more people. It is truly depressing and I’m thinking of leaving
Remember when Ireland was the Celtic Tiger, and then part of the "I" in the P.I.G.S. of the EU. Ireland has to get put of the E.U. and deport the immigrants Irish can't migrate to the USA, because of the racist immigration policies of the USA., since 1966. White European have the lowest quota migrating to the USA. You can thank this to Teddy Kennedy. The only reason Musk is in the USA is because his mother was Canadian. Musk could have never entered the USA as a South African because the USA won't accept white refugees from South Africa even though White South African farmers are being killed. Once the immigrants coming into Ireland become the majority, then you will get the same treatment.
What annoys me is we put the blame on the immigrants. Nah mate parnell been banging this bell since the 1900s. Property exclusively for investment is morally repugnant. We have the homes. So many derelict home homes that are owned by someone who has no interest selling or renting the damn thing. There is a landowner who owns 5-6 properties in loughrea and buys more not to rent not to sell but to accrue value. Put laws in place that puts heavy taxes on landowners who own properties that sit unused. You wanna leave it for your familly then sign it to there name and stop using property as some investment bull£%^&.
We used to travel to Dublin from Belfast for shopping cos it was cheaper, but once Euro became the new currency, prices jumped up significantly. The last time I looked at a 3 bedroom terrace for sale, it was almost half a million!! I feel for the Irish.
I've been living in Ireland since 2016 and have been swapping accomodation once every 2 years...atm I'm paying nearly 2k a month in rent as a single dad and my total rent paid since I've arrived to the country is between 200-250k! Yet I cannot get a mortgage even though I paid off the price of a house in less than 9 years, not once have I been not working full time not once have I missed a rental payment or utility bill yet I'm getting shafted left right and centre 👍
who builds the homes ? we need better training of course but it really is a resource issue , the billionaires get more resource and we migrants and natives alike are getting less
@FourteenWords-n4l We have the same thing in the US with the current administration allowing millions of illegals into the country. "Replacement Theory" isn't a theory. It's a plan.
Politicians were warned about housing bubble was going to burst 20 years ago but they never did anything now it's my generation how are paying the price in action.
yea thats the sad part they were well well warned what was coming should have implemented a strategy of BUILD BUILD BUILD if they had started in 05 we either have no housing crisis or it's significantly less damaging
The problem is that the housing bubble DIDN'T BURST, like everyone thought. It's still going up and up in price. And realistically, unless there is a sudden and massive drop in population, how will it ever stop?
@@LM-gc6pk oh I Wonder why Ireland's population keeps climbing 🤔🤔 definitely not because the government has a disastrous immigration policy that helps no one
Ireland's being flooded with dependants and unproductive individuals unfortunately. It's bad enough that we were struggling to house our own people, but now we're somehow expected to house the world too. The worst part is that so many idiots still say "immigration isn't the problem" - yes, it isn't 'the' problem, there are multiple problems and excessively high immigration levels is certainly a large one, as well as abysmal planning system and NIMBYs. Anyone who says otherwise is denying reality: we are completion 30k homes per year while growing our population by 70k+, which means we are compounding the issue as the housing crisis has been a disaster for 10+ years now.
So, the problem is house building, not immigration. Now, scratch deeper and you will find construction is lagging, because we don't have the people for the jobs. . .
The governments of the world are clamping down on corporate tax havens like Ireland. When that happens, there will be no reason for Apple, Microsoft, and Google to stay abroad and will return to the USA, leaving a financial black hole in Irelands' budget. With no money, a looming world recession, and a million plus migrants to care for what could go wrong. ??
My story over here. In 2024, I joined Garda Siochana. As I have no family in Ireland and Garda college refused to allow me to stay in college during the weekends, I had to rent a house in Thurles. After some time, I had to leave, because my rent expired and I had to look for some other place to stay. I went to live in the farm and I was unfairly expelled by the owner. It was enough for me, I went back to Brazil and that was the best decision I took.
I moved to Ireland in 2004. I integrated well, married Irish man, went to college and got PhD and got job in public sector. State is trying to screw public sector workers so much, it is not even funny. We have now 2 small boys and childcare cost is more than a mortgage. We are high earners and we are living quite comfortable but wouldnt drive new cars, spend on hairdresses, clothes etc. We eat well and go for a 2 holidays per year. But we are over 40 now and only bought ahouse that needs complete retrofit. I really feel sorry for the young generation now. You really need combine income at least 120k to afford decent house and start family. At the same time, lot of young people are so bad with money, spending 250 on haircuts, drive new cars on high purchase and waste hundreds on subscriptions that they will never save for deposits.
In Hungary if your first child is born you don't pay interest after your mortgage, 2nd child the gov write 30% off the mortgage + no interest, 3rd child they write the whole mortgage off.
Yeah, but if you are single and over 25 you need to share room with others if you rent and will never get your own place, also forget retirement too....
You have barely referenced the fact that the massive influx of Ukrainian refugees coming into Ireland in 2022, which can be said to have caused the anti immigration rhetoric because they were given €200 a week by the government, housing, social benefits etc which the other people in Direct Provision did not receive, also this fuelled the anger of the Irish people whom a lot of them weren't able to get housing themself. Therefore the problem overall was caused by bad government policy- and the blame should not have been put on refugees from other countries seeking asylum but on the government itself.
@curlybobs2 That drifts away from the Headscarf people invading their country NARRATIVE. So, of course, it's gonna be left out. The entire channel is full of Why living in UK, Australia, Germany etc. impossible. The racial undertones are very prevalent on this channel. Pretty sure the guy has never even visited half of these countries he's making videos about and claiming to know so much about their Economy's distress.
@@jaiahuja6560 OH yes "racial undertones"! So you're saying Germany is perfectly safe the New Years eve was a fun party for all, Nothing Happened to the Christmas Markets and nothing Happened in Koln in 2015?
yea there's about 110,000 of them in Ireland and most if not all of them have 0 intention on ever leaving regardless when the war ends the reality is the longer the war continues the more will keep flooding into the country hell if the war ended tomorrow i would fully expect campaigns being launched to allow the refugees sons brothers fathers etc come to Ireland to be with their families
Simply put 150,000 immigrants are given priority over Irish who were born and raised there. Rents skyrocket because the Government pays rental property owners double or more to house immigrants...and the Irish Cutzens dont have the luxury of their rent being paid by Government
Ireland's housing crisis is simple. There are 2 factors: insanely restrictive laws around real estate development and even more insane immigration policy. Having over 100k net migration per year in a country of 4,5 million is absolutely delirious. But having perhaps the most restrictive zoning and development laws in the world on top of that is the killing blow.
@@patrickscott838 tomaito tomato. Even at 5.5 million , 100k per year is 2% increase JUST bc of immigration. That alone is higher than the fertility rate of any other european country.
Actually a massive part of the problem is highlighted here in the video. Housing being snapped up by investment funds. The government has no appetite to fix this as ultimately this is everyone's pension. I.e. the investment funds are pension funds. So you can thank Michael Noonan in large part for this in Ireland. However this same issue is everywhere. BlackRock are buying up houses across the US leading to the same affordability and availability crisis.
@@Brishtah absolute cope. When you have to wait 2 or more years to get approval for a building that can't even be more than 8 or 10 stories tall,and still get denied, you will have a massive problem. Not to even mention the obvious fact that if you keep adding 2% population growth from immigration alone, you'll run out of housing even faster and end up with situations like what we live today, with daft rental listings being flooded with 1k+ applications mere minutes after they go on the site, and having 500+ mortgage applications for a350/400k two bedroom semi detached house on the outskirts of the city.
@@shreder89yes the planning procedures are awful. The government have finally introduced new laws and approaches there last year, time will tell if they make a difference. Also agreed Dublin city should go high rise. But we also need to prevent investment funds from buying up half of what's built and then renting it out at extortionate rates, or in some cases letting it sit idle and appreciate value on a balance sheet. That's only good for the fund itself.
Very well put together video. I've lived in Ireland for almost 20 years (originally from the UK) and this year we had a general election. Even though people were unhappy with the current institution, same parties were voted which i didn't really understand. Public spending has gotten out of control. Just have a look at the bike shed the government built cost around 350k-400k and then they built a security hut at one of the government buildings that costs around 1.4M. A HUT! NOT A BUILDING A TINY SHACK.
2:49 I'm Irish. I left in 2018. I should have left sooner. I had a degree and had not been able to get work. I was living at home and I was on social welfare because I had no job. I regularly volunteered at jobs and took odd temp jobs to try make up for it. I felt so sick of not being able to afford to live. I left and my quality of life tripled. There are still issues but now I can afford to live on my own, have a really good job and can afford to actually save money. Lastly: its pronounced KELL-TIC tiger not SELL-TIC tiger 😂 in b4 you get heaps of abuse
@@kerrithornton You moved to a country with a bigger housing crisis than Ireland with higher unemployment than Ireland... so how did that improve your situation?
It's not supply and demand when it comes to homes. My country went from 10-11 million population down to 6.5 million from 1991 to 2024. During that same period we have built 3-4x more homes in big cities than there were 30-35 years ago. Yet in the 90s the median home(which was 71-74m^2) costed 2-3x median yearly salaries, now the median home(which is 48-52m^2) costs 9-12x median yearly salaries. Why? Because big companies and rich people buy out all the homes, or straight up build them, then price them using algorithms to get the price as high as possible and this is price fixing, but since the governments are incompetent it is not considered price fixing. 36-40%+ of homes are empty in big cities where 80%+ of people live btw, it's not a supply issue.
@@iseeyou3129 The west was great until the early 2000s, so after the CCCP fell and people were allow to leave the country on top of having a lot of jobless people, people went west to gain wealth. In the past decade our living standard has risen so much that our purchasing power has almost reached the western European country. Also CCCP countries were the first countries to have low birth rates. Nowadays I'd pick Poland, Bulgaria or Romania over western European countries, much more freedom, almost as good purchasing power and I like the culture better, no we are not conservative btw, overall we are much more progressive than western countries, just not in everything. Also I hate huge cities, I find even the capital of my country to be ginormous, let alone western country big cities.
To crack down on this type of abuse, some places in Canada have brought in a vacant home tax. It will be interesting to see how much of an effect this has.
We essentially have a one party system with no real dissidents in government. Aontu is the only party with a significantly different stance than our previous governments.
This is the real issue. Half the countries registered voters didn’t even bother showing up last election. Callans Kicks got it right with Harris being a puppet. He does what the EU tells him and nothing else. Can’t even walk through Westport without being ran out of town!
That isn't accurate. A large majority of the population didn't vote them back in. Fianna Fáil got the largest vote count but it only amounted to roughly 13% of the electorate actually voting for them. Most people voted for opposition parties but opposition was so divided among so many parties that no single one of them achieved enough votes to form a government. Fianna Fáil and Fianna Gael have very little real support but it's still enough for them to ally with each other and fill the required seats. It's a rigged system designed to make it very difficult to get rid of the conventional establishment. There should be an elimination vote prior to the electoral vote in order to eliminate parties people definitely don't want. That would tidy it up and ensure an outcome that better reflected public desire. It isn't real democracy because it isn't designed to reflect the reality of what the public want. It's a scam and I am probably not going to vote again. I'm fed up legitimising a corrupt system. Edit: It's also wrong that the government can decide when to hold an election. It allows them to choose a time when polls favour them. The decision to hold an early election should rest with the people.
Honestly that’s so common that seems normal in Europe. I live in Madrid and the situation is exactly the same and from friends who live in other European capitals I know that it’s like that everywhere
Also here in Portugal, Lisbon and Porto are unaffordable for Portuguese people and nowadays are full of immigrants, specially men. Its everywhere in Europe. But the root off the problem is the national citizens themselves, that continue to vote and want free stuff, so social parties are always on the power, building and creating more state, that requires more maintenance and requires more taxes. Meanwhile people cant afford a home, they delay marriage and starting a family for their thirties when p.e. women are already at risk of not been able to have children. Unless there is a significant drop on taxes, both personal and company taxes, so that people and companies have more money at their disposal, I dont see how can this change. Specially because people, dont see the direct impact off their political choices.
As an Irish person this video is missing some extremely important information. 10,500 homeless figures are not the official homeless figures. This number only counts people waiting on or in emergency accommodation, does not count hidden homelessness such as people couch surfing, living in hostels and not registered as doing so, and many other cases. The actual figure is a lot higher. Ireland has 102,000 vacant and derelict homes at minimum and government and councils actively avoid collecting additional taxes these homes are subject to and do nothing about them. Why? Because a huge majority of our government are themselves landlords, and creating scarcity for a necessity means record profits. Immigration is only a key issue as it’s being used by the far right as a racist scapegoat and serves as a distraction from government corruption. Anyone with two working brain cells in Ireland can do the maths. We know that if the govnment, the courts and the councils wanted, housing wouldn’t be an issue. We don’t even have a RIGHT to housing in our constitution, a referendum people have been calling for for a decade but the government has continuously pushed aside. Many of the houses built during the Celtic tiger were also not to standard, not to even mention the scandalous homes falling apart being covered up by the government in Donegal. Also the majority of new houses being built are being completely bought up by vulture funds, large for profit housing companies, many of them foreign, buying up 100s of homes at a time and selling them for unaffordable prices. This is not an immigration problem. This is a greed problem. Racists and landlords out!
Yep, people are quick to point to immigration legal or otherwise as the issue here, but in reality it's those in charge turning Ireland into a landlord state.
How many of them are drog adic and having treatment clinics free and accommodation but they prefer using drogs and doing violent moves when social payments are not enought .
I work in one of the hotels housing 'refugees' and i can confirm that 80+% are purely economic migrants by their own accounts. I'm sure it's higher but 80% is about the number who tell me their friend told them to come here, it was the land of milk and honey. One room costs the taxpayer £210 per night. (Northern Ireland, we use GBP). They get to jump the queue at A&E and get prioity healthcare and dentistry.
@userxyz64 that sounds a bit over the top..however, we are not blind...we have loads of annecdotes of social housing used for folks from outside europe...north or south, i.e. thru simon community / fingal or farther very mistrust who now needs to be bailed out
What's the plan? Australia and New Zealand have similar issues with house prices (unless you head to the likes of Dunedin or Adelade maybe). Not possible to emigrate to the US unless you get referred in on a qualification and job offer. Canada is insanely expensive too. Spain, maybe?
@@Noobsaibot21 I think Spain would be cheaper but without a remote job I think the salary is meant to be pretty abysmal. As you said though, so many people emigrate but go to countries with the exact same problems but hey maybe the weather is better 😅
@@CodeWithPaulIoSpain has great public services too. No 4 year wait for hospital appointments there. Police seen working unlike IRL. Better there in many ways
Pole here - use to live in Ireland for 17 years... Use to be reasonable if not good. Last 5-7 years was just scary if it goes to cost of live - I was renting... Took my toys and gone back to old sandox - Living happily in Poland for last 2 Years. Still Love Irealand - but hey... Irish system kicked me out in the way. All the best to Paddys - You will get there. Cheers!.
You answered your own question: financialisation of the housing market. The same problem in the US, Canada, the UK etc. Stop banks and corporate giants from buying homes and you fix the problem instantly!
So you can want to completely kill the rental market? Let's mentally move back to the 90s when nobody heard of mass illegal migration: where does your student son live In a new town? How do you start a family with zero budget? You rage against those greedy capitalists at your own peril.
THIS! I feel the video focus a bit too much on immigration rather than on this, which is the real issue and the main reason why rents are prohibitively high all over Ireland.
Please forgive my inhumane response, but for a country as wealthy and as small as ireland, this shouldnt be a problem. I could literally change this overnight, by enacting a few laws and spending a bit of money, which ireland has and can get. This isnt india, S Korea, The USA, Nigeria, etc where its slightly more complicated. It seems like the irish government want it like this.
@Rick_Cleland I'm just on the outside looking in, and in retrospect, most politicians are smarter then most of the population. If they're born into that position, it would be a different story, but they had to finish school, which most of the population have not, then they're trained as politicians. This is for every politician everywhere, only monarchs hand down the country, no matter how the heir may feel. Even if the politicians are a bunch of numptys! If they're humble they would listen to one of the populace. I tell you what? Instead of marching for a day, if all the protesters constantly flooded the email of the politician in charge of housings inbox, they might make a difference. I honestly believe demonstrating is too much too soon, and it doesn't solve the problem, but creates more! And instead of getting the attention of the right people, all it does it get the attention of the police. Bobby who's been on the beat for a year, has no power to reform Ireland housing, immigration and laws.
@NachoTin 😬 your Q actually asks me to clarify a plan I've enacted with the Dublin council, but since I'm not under an NDA and I'm not a greedy person, I can share with you a few. 1. The Irish population is very small at 5.26m, with a large enough country for even 10x as many people. London is so much smaller, yet they have about a 10m population, with it swelling comfortably to about 13-14m due to commuters, tourists, students, immigrants both legal and illegal. 2. Reading between the lines, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, etc have conservation areas, and although these are important, conservation areas are overshadowed by homelessness. What they should do is minimise any historical conservation areas and remove landscape C A's, and build more housing. 3. Instead of letting money hungry greedy contractors be the sole contractor of construction projects, the government should use some of the incredible wealth they've acquired, and build affordable housing. Architects are clever (😅 I hope so, I'm one, and would be disastrous if we weren't) so I'm sure the government could commission 10 architects to design 10-50 apartments of 50-100 units each, in 5 cities, which not only look like they deserve to be in Ireland but have a pristine interior. Which actually isn't that much. This would at least curb the rising prices of accommodation. Remember, the whole country can't (and shouldnt) go to school, come out with an Ma in surgery, accounting, engineering, law, etc. 1. Every place needs it's blue collar workers, it's cleaners, bus drivers, shop assistants, police officers, refuse collectors, farmers, etc And 2. This promotes healthy growth, which in turn provides tax money. I really don't understand the want of countries to have a big bank account? Having lots of cash means nothing if you have so many homeless people. Or Let's make this smaller, relatable. If your parents were rich, but then you lived in a hut, whilst they lived in a mansion, you'd be angry! Wars start because of things like this.
Come to japan housing is cheap eating out is cheap health care is extremely cheap but we have earthquake if you can buy houses they can't be guaranteed
@@wexfordindy I Mr someone is unemployed or otherwise struggling with low pay and high rent, I think it can be useful to go to another country and make money, even off the books. Save up enough to buy land in Ireland and create intentional communities, grow food, home school, etc. my friend has a tree service and can’t find reliable workers even if she is paying $30 an hour cash. She has a place for them to sleep comfortably. Just a lot of people living off welfare and food cards, drinking and drugging. Anyone with handy skills could save thousands in a season. Firefighter agencies pay huge in Canada too.
Same problem as in many other countries. Greed kills human civilization. Too many houses and flats are empty just serving as investment. The way back exists - put local citizens to the first place in front of investors and rise taxes for empty properties to make them available for people. But no government does it as the force of rich companies is too big.
I left Ireland in 2011, but I still pay a mortgage on a five bedroom house I bought in '06. I'd love to rent it out and take away the burden of paying the mortgage, but the RTB (residential tenancies board) says that it's unsuitable as a rental property because of "issues" such as horizontal stair banisters that a baby could fall through, windows that open beyond 20 degrees, posing a risk that a child might fall out, no "vents" in the windows for air circulation, and a list of other such complaints. I would have to spend around ten thousand Euro to solve these so called problems, none of which are actually making the house unlivable for adult tenants. Then I hear stories about a lack of rental properties, rent too high etc. While I accept that a rental home should be livable, these regulations are preventing my property (technically still the bank's property) from going on the market. Our politicians are far too interested in virtue signalling and feathering their own nests. I won't be moving back anytime soon.
I left in 2011 too. Came back in 2021. Tenants had done a lot of damage to our house. No real recourse to justice. Had a problem getting them out. Will never rent again.
@@jarlathbrophy5665 witch hunt against small landlord. Rtb and courts support tenant even if they dont pay rent. Landlord is stuck with bills and providing service, pays 52% tax on rent and treated very badly
The " Virtue Signaling " Is just a cover for avaricious opportunism. Any Bureaucrat knows that there is no power in " Yes " there is only power in " No ". Yes has to be bought or extracted legally in a rigged system. The entire structure of Western governments is essentially an extortion/protection racket. Stop listening to Leftists and do what needs be done to save ourselves.
Exact same thing happened to our landlord. We were happy renting the house. RTB demanded €12k+ in repairs to the house including windows, rewiring etc etc. we had no choice but to either leave and be homeless or buy the house as landlord decided to sell it rather than do the recommended ‘work’. Laughable RTB making a family homeless. Couldn’t make it up. Thank god we worked with the landlord and saved hard, we’re about to draw down the mortgage on the house now. Nowhere else to rent or buy where we’re living. Sorry that happened to you I hope your property goes up in value
Here in Germany they also wanna move 150 people to a 180 people village The major is from the center-right CDU and wants to enforce his decision This isn't the first time this happens with the CDU and they wonder why nobody takes them seriously on migration
I bet that those worms in your government are squirming, thinking... About what would happen if they fell into the hands of the angry Irish people that they spend all their time attacking from the shadows, thinking that they're safe. It brings me great pride to say that I never backed down from someone who thought it would be a good idea to take advantage of me or attacked me from the shadows. I fight back. As a matter of fact I have a court date because I chose to defend myself from someone who thought it would be a good idea to turn on me. The funny thing is is that they think it's all fun and games until they realize that you are serious and you will use that weapon that you pulled out. It would be their Worst Nightmare. Worst Nightmare. Worst Nightmare... I personally think it's time to make someone's dreams come true.
@Doobidoobidoohaha Not true at all. The Brazilian was the second one on the scene, the first man was an Irish man but of course mainstream media don't report that.
The government could fix this easily..they could fast forward building permits..but they don't want to. Ireland keeps running a dicifit in building permits every year. Everything else is just noise. Approve 250k building permit this year, and in 3 years, everything us fix. Now homeowners will hate this because rent and home price will stagnate or go down..
100% correct.. unlike what this guy says, regulations are the problem .. my good friend in Wexford has been unable to sell his beautiful house for years due red tape about something in how it was constructed 30 years ago ..so so costly and dumb.
💯. It's so obvious. Yet, the low information types blame immigration, asylum, EU, etc. Always blame the foreigner. Never the reality ,which is your neighbor, and his TD trying to protect his home values.
@DaveMurphyDublin-x5r 0 seconds ago The only people who "welcomed refugees" into Ireland were government funded NGOs. The vast majority of Irish people have always opposed illegal immigration into Ireland. Back in 2004 a Whopping 79% of Irish people voted in a referendum to stop giving out citizenship to illegals.
Agreed none of us wanted this we saw what a disaster it would be and it is a disaster, all successive governments fault no one else. Cannot figure out are they stupid or evil, I think both. They ignored the people of Ireland's wishes, they are PAID to listen to us and act in our best interests, they did the exact opposite.
That is a lie, most asylum seekers aren't illegal as most are women and children from Ukraine and between November 2023 and July 2024 the Gardai caught the UK Government had weaponised over 7,000 refugees and forced them over the Irish Border with threats they would be deport to Rwanda, so illegal refugees in Ireland are sent here by the UK Government..
this is entirely false, what are you talking about. We're literally one of the most friendly and welcoming places on the planet and we are famous for it. lol what a troll.
@@madbun1312 plus even if we were always against illegal immigration which usal just means refugees getting somewhere through unofficial means which in the case if you're a refugee isn't actually illegal even that is a tiny portion that make up the people coming here.
Bravo sir 👏🏼 Not only does this video cut deep and genuinely hurts me to watch, it highlights the true reality of my home country. I won’t bore readers with my full story but to sum it up in a few words. I don’t think I’ll be able to afford the luxury of introducing my first born to their grandmother, it’ll simply be to expensive and I don’t see the current state of the country changing anytime soon 🇮🇪
Well I got a child that I support and love dearly, but that's just about what I can afford in Ireland as a first wave immigrant, child support + car loan+ rent+ bills= nothing left. I am fooked too :D and I work in pharma sector, like I can't afford to start a new family. Too many ppl r in the same boat
That's nothing. I had to pay €190 for a room in a house with a family in Limerick as my student accomodation. Now I commute an hour and forty minutes each morning and evening to college instead.
I grew up in Ireland and i can say from personal experience that the country has lost all hope currently. All my friends that live there either live at home or pay extortion for rent. I'm 30 years old for context. I have friends who have been in long term relationships who have resorted to moving back in with parents to save for a home. When i lived in Cork city in 2016 my rent was 325 euro for a room in a 4 bed apartment. That's 1300 euro a month for a 4 bed apartment. that same type of apartment 4 years later in 2020 was 2200 euro that's almost double in just 4 years. How can anyone justify that. I've personally been to viewings for tiny rooms in houses that were damp and ill maintained where 100s of people would be looking to rent. The condition of the houses are often terrible because the landlords don't care if you leave so they wont fix anything someone else will take your place tomorrow.
on my end I'm paying 120 euro a week to live at home with my mother was originally 100 euro from 2017-2025 so tbh i think a 20 euro rise after 8 years is fine but the point is that's 480 a month 480 wouldn't get you somewhere per week at this point never mind a month so i prob aint going anywhere any time soon
And there are many "foreigners" leaving Ireland as well, or at least considering. Cause why would they stay in Ireland or the UK when they can have a better life elsewhere in their original countries? It's only then that people will realise that getting rid of foreigners didn't solve their problems but instead created new ones like a shortage of doctors (this is already starting)
Yep. It’s a scam for developers and hoteliers who are also developers lol. And don’t talk about the amount of vacant properties. It’s all a scam and tbh this video doesn’t help as it doesn’t give a true picture of how this has happened.
its a huge problem of foreign vulture funds absolutely gobbling up houses in new housing estates as " investment opportunities " they need to ban vulture funds from buying property in Ireland
Visited Ireland 1999, two week driving tour - what a fantastic country, and people. One of our little group was a Shannon born & bred guy, who introduced us to Ireland thru native-born eyes. After 10 days bombing around the country & coasts, Dublin was a shock, probably least favorite of the trip. I'm so sorry for how the last 25yrs have changed it.
It's still lovely down the south coast. We stayed in a village called Sneem in Kerry last summer, which is near to where my Grandad was brought up. The last time we visited was 2011 and it has barely changed. A beautiful and quaint, quiet little place. We visited a few other villages on the Ring and they were much the same. A stark contrast to where I come from in the UK. I pray to god it never changes but I'm sure it will eventually. We finished our trip in Dublin and the contrast was immense, even felt a little unsafe at times. You expect that with a city but still. I will definitely be heading back down the south coast where the spirit of rural Ireland remains.
@@DoctorVision Ah, the Ring of Kerry! So incredibly beautiful - stopped thru on way to Dingle, another very cool place with history before recorded times. The lasting impression of our 2 weeks in Ireland is of its accessible history, literally cycling up to centuries-old churches, castles, and crumbling defense towers with fairy-ring forgotten moats. I remember a crumbling stone church, in which the learning stone (carved in Gaelic, the 800yr old equivalent to a school blackboard) still stood - in the U.S., it would have been behind glass. We were able to run our hands over the stone, thinking about how the children used to do the same while learning.
It's amazing that woman can live in the middle of a field. You can't do that either in Ireland anymore, your council will evict u for living in a mobile home on your own land even when they can't offer emergency accommodation.
I left Ireland four years ago and moved to the UAE, I'm living in the US now and will stay here for the next few years. I'd like to buy my parents a decent home in my hometown, however anything decent is 400k+, bonkers. Biggest issue I have is that, even in Dublin, there is little opportunity compared to other capital cities, and the cost of living and taxes are sky high. The cost of living and taxes are sky high in New York as well, but YOU'RE IN NEW YORK!
Do you think you are living in 1980s? There are very little countries where you can move to that is so better paid than Ireland.... or at least for a standard job.
@@roryoneill9444 You're missing the point entirely. I'm talking about opportunity, not standard jobs. I lived in the centre of Dubai and stayed in an apartment near the Burj Khalifa for 1200euro a month, there were all kind of world-class experiences and amenities at my doorstep. In my hometown, I'd pay the same money for an apartment, with very little in terms of economic opportunity around me. I'd only imagine the cost if I were to live in Dublin city centre. For young ambitious people like myself who want to build strong careers, Ireland doesn't offer a satisfactory level of economic opportunity in relation to the cost of living. Many of us feel this way, hence why so many of us have left or are planning on leaving.
Haven't watched full video yet, but speaking of immigration - I think it's important to remember there's also big companies like Apple, Microsoft etc constantly hiring foreigners. I was one, worked in a Finnish team for one of these big tech companies. They hire you & may pay for your flights + pay for the 1st month of accommodation & you even have a relocation agent helping you find 'permanent' accommodation. My team was constantly having new people come in almost monthly. One guy had to live in a hostel. Some people reject the work offers because they can't find a place to live in, especially in Dublin or other bigger cities. I keep saying, it's easier to find work in Ireland than in Finland, & in Finland it's easier to find a roof over your head than a job. I eventually left Ireland (Dublin) because my luck in finding a suitable, LIVABLE apartment ran out. The prices were absurd, once saw an ad for a bunk spot in a room for 3, in a house for 8 with just 1 bathroom, for 1500/mo + utilities. Some apartments would be called walk-in closets elsewhere. & the mold!! Wasn't there a study in Cork City that almost 90% of the rent apartments were unsuitable for living!? Anyways, yea. :/ It's a beautiful country, lovely people, great job opportunities & I wish to live there again, but........ Edit: Ahhh you mention this issue too :D
It's sad how things turned out... mad to think how many people cant afford a home couldn't imagine that and makes me feel more grateful for a roof over my head.
"Financialization" isn't the problem. This doesn't explain why more housing is not built, just why less is being built to sell. The bigger issue is that not enough housing is built AT ALL. The majority of people in Ireland own their own house. In the 2000s during the Celtic Tiger boom, plenty of new houses were being built and the construction sector was booming. Prices kept going up but so did wages and the mortgages banks would offer, so everyone was haply. But when the crash came, people lost jobs and couldn't afford to pay their mortgage anymore, and people who didn't already have a house couldn't buy anymore, so there were a lot of extra houses with nobody to buy then and prices plummeted. Then a side effect of the prices plummeting was that for many recent buyers, the amount they still had to pay off on their mortgage was higher than what they'd get from selling the house, which was a really bad situation (widely referred to as "negative equity" at the time). So now a large section of older, better-off voters (the ones who own the houses) and the politicians they elect are terrified of house prices dropping, and they therefore keep supply low with onerous regulations and planning laws that slow construction way down and ensure only a trickle of new places to live can be built. These voters are so plentiful that none of the top 3 biggest parties want to upset them with widespread new construction. The people who already own property get to ride the wave back up, while people who don't fall further and further behind.
It’s not just housing! It’s the infrastructure like roads, energy and water needed too! Not to mention employment, health and educational services! Most people are not you to work to be taxed at 70pc plus to fund all this!
I had to leave my home in Ireland when I was 20 as there were no opportunities for me. I’m an educated working professional. It’s sad that I can’t come home for the foreseeable future.
Geeetings from Turkey. The situation of housing and accommodation is a complete catastrophe in Turkey too. Corrupted and thief government representatives and members buy houses lots of houses as bribery from big construction companies. Also, the refugee policy of the government have been increasing accommodation problem of Turkey. People are experiencing a nightmare nowadays.
Most people didn't vote them in. Fianna Fáil recieved only 13% of the electorates support. Most people who showed up to vote voted for opposition parties. The system is rigged so that the establishment can stsy in power with only a minority of support. This happens because opposition is too divided to compete.
Thanks for making this. Very true. One of the weirdest things is that all my educated and well-to-do friends do not even acknowledge this. It's wild. "Muhammad" being the number one baby name in Galway means nothing to them. They're so focused on historical resentment that they're blind to the fact that they're currently being replaced. The cognitive dissonance is mind-boggling.
In the past we had to worry about the ignorance of the working class. Now we need to worry about the ignorance of people with degrees. They are among the most hopelessly brainwashed you will come across. And most of them will be in a position where it's going to be very bad for them in their professional lives to recognise the truth. In such a scenario where it is better for a person to remain ignorant, you can bet your bottom dollar that is how they will stay
As the video mentioned, you could buy a home for 260,000 Euro in Dublin 10 years ago and you can stil buy one for less over in Belfast. This is why an united Ireland isn't very appetizing over in NI.
NI home owners would be thrilled at the prospect of getting €200k+ richer doing nothing, and most politicians are property owners, so that's unlikely to be the impediment to reunification that you think it is. Almost every effort to make housing affordable will be fought by people who have houses already and see their net worth dropping as a result (And they are statistically a lot more likely to vote) and the large companies who outbid the people who wanted to live there to get huge amounts of property as an investment to turn into rental income (And gain on the value of the property), in some cases to the same people they outbid to buy it.
@peglor I'm a NI home owner and I don't want the place I love to become unaffordable to people and drive them out. Thanks. I got my house, I want to live in it, not flip it.
Common link in all these videos trashing every country is where are people going to leave to? There’s a video similar to this with similar problems in all wealthy western countries, Australia, Canada, UK…if life really is “impossible” everywhere, where are you going to escape to? You’re just swapping one set of problems for another.
Well yes that's why you shouldn't destroy your countries from the inside out in the first place. But you wanted feminism and diversity so there you go, now you'll have nowhere left
lets bring all these ex colonies under our control again and go there to rebuild them, and show all the refugees from there that it doesnt matter where you live, but how you live.
Make absolutely no mistake almost every SINGLE commenter that bemoans how the brown people have ''destroyed'' their western country would never, in a million years, every live in any eastern European shithole that they praise so much for their domestic 'racial purity' agenda. It's all fluff, all pretend, LARPers. I've no doubt even the guy who runs this channel is just another guy who lives in one of the countries he shits on about, a total right wing grifter.
as an immigrant in Ireland (legally), I became so emotional watching this. I knew that housing is a big problem here, the job market as well, but I had no idea it's that bad, and I really feel so sorry for the irish people being hit that hard by their own country..
There is another interesting problem in Ireland which helps fuel the crisis on a more "local" level but with nationwide repercussions. Because of the tech jobs that exist in this country, which are significantly higher paid than most "normal" jobs for domestic companies, you have a small amount of buyers with much bigger salaries than the average person. The average person will find it challenging to earn more than €50k per year but some of the tech jobs pay €120k per year and more. But there are probably more people working those tech jobs making 6 figures then there are people earning between €50-100k a year (just a guess), so there is a huge gap rather than a more normative tiered wage structure that you have in most economies. Those people are easily able to afford homes, especially outside Dublin, resulting in bidding wars at the real estate agent level that further drives prices up. Plus if you have a couple where one spouse earns €120k from a tech job and the other earns €50k a year working somewhere else, that's a combined salary of €170k and a purchasing power in the mortgage market of €680k if they're first time buyers. So even though the majority of people are priced out of the market, there are just barely enough high earners to keep the bidding going and push the prices up and up. Open to feedback and correction here of course.
Most of those high payed jobs in Multinationals are held by foreigners. Depending on where you are the problem is different for example Donegal has a serious problem with Rich Dubs and remote workers moving up there.
@ completely agree Matthew, I have seen the same exact thing. At least Donegal is still somewhat reasonable in terms of house prices but still probably overpriced objectively speaking when you take into account the job scarcity up there.
@@matthewbarry376 That is a lie, most Multinationals jobs are held by Irish people and I would know as a contractor in several Multinational companies and the vast majority of the Staff are Irish, at all levels. How many multinationals have set up in Donegal & why hasn't Doherty not got more MNE sector jobs in Donegal?
That is wrong, most of the MNE sector in Ireland are Pharmaceutical Jobs not IT and this will only effects commuter towns in counties around Dublin & the towns around Cork City... this is why in a United Ireland, there will be a massive jump in property prices between Dublin and Belfast (also Belfast will see a massive FDI push as the IDA gets to work) in Co Down and Co Armagh, this along with the North's GDP will increase Ireland's overall GDP figures massively. If MNEs plant sets up in a Town, it is great for the local economy as it adds to the overall employment range in the region. I will give an example using two towns close to each other Dungarvan and Youghal, both are seaside towns with beautiful beaches but Dungarvan has a Pharmaceutical Plant and Youghal doesn't, the difference in the local economy is massive as Dungarvan has three sectors (two are seasonal and one is all year round), Tourism, Agricultural and Manufacturing & Dungarvan is very vibrant but Youghal only has only 2 seasonal industries Tourism and Agricultural & is economically dead. There is, of course, the multiplier effect, which means that the catering & retail sectors have a steady local customer base all year round, which allows for easy ramp up during the Summer months, in Dungarvan and in Youghal the Tourism sector can cost a lot of investment at the start of the season & agriculture is very niche & specialised working environment in both towns. The main problems that were not mentioned in the video with the Housing Crisis in Ireland is that from 2016 to 2019, most of the political bandwidth and resources were used to insolate the Irish Economy & the Peace Process in the North from the damage of Brexit, this included over 400 meetings in every European Capital to protect the border and to construct Port Facilities and infrastructural projects to bye-pass the land-bridge, also there was a hiatus in the construction of 2 years during the pandemic leaving a shortfall of 60,000 houses, this shortfall will take at least 5 years to work its way through the system, which Ireland is in the middle of. The Irish Central Bank also mention the Labour Shortage in the Construction Sector, the reluctance of the Banking sector to give mortgages without very strict guidelines in place and planning permission issues.
There’s absolutely no way that there are more people making €100,000+ a year than there are people making €50,000 to €100,000 a year. No chance whatsoever
One issue that was not addressed is that there are over 100,000 vacant properties across Ireland. The issue only has a little to do with less housing building being built, and absolutely nothing to do with immigration. The issue is the housing market. Landlords and companies have realised they can just buy up loads of housing and increase rates because "the housing market" doesn't work
It's not usually legal though, you need planning permission to do this, and I believe you can only get 6 months for a mobile home before it has to be moved. Usually they don't give the planning permission. The same issue with cabins and modular homes. In addition, there are no mortgages to be got for any form of cheaper housing.
@@piee683it has no electricity or plumbing. So you'd be miserably cold, wearing dirty clothes and sleeping in stinky bed sheets, and shitting in a latrine bucket. You'd likely be dead 20 years under life expectancy
When you have M2 money supply increasing annually by 6.9%, driven by debt creation against assets such as housing, and wage growth targetted by govenment to mirror the inflation rate of 2%, then invariably housing will become unaffordable. Housing will inflate at 6.9% annually (using 'Rule of 72'), so housing will double in price every 10 years approximately. Wages will inflate at 2% annually, so wages will double every 36 years. At this rate house prices will aways outpace wages, as they have done over the last 5 decades globally. The end result will be that young people will no longer be able to establish their own families. Councils are forced by law to house the migrants ahead of their own citizens, who are also in need of support. This will not end well, as the country's educated and trained cohort of the next generation will get smaller and smaller through demographic decline, and as more and more resources are diverted unsustainably to poorly educated and untrained migrants. Somewhere down the line ever increasing taxation will reach a limiting point, which will result in general decline of the country. The only problem is that this is happening to all counrtries around the world, where the national resources are being used by migrants who should not, in normal circumstances, be elligible to them.
Its the same everywhere in the world now, huge changes in the past 10 years. What is going on globally? I have never taken conspiracy theories seriously, but now I am starting to think there must be something that is driving this situation.
Western civilization is being changed through immigration. Poverty is on the rise. Soros said, "You will own nothing and be happy." Is this also the WEF and the EU behind this movement?
You see, there's the rub. Ireland experiences an influx of refugess, and the goverment moves heaven and earth to house them. What about its own people?
Didn’t look like that to me in a video set by a friend last week. Hundreds of people waiting for Santa to arrive . Sunshine and blue skies and not a trail I mean, cloud in the sky.
Affordable house target for government is 350,000, the average wage for a person in ireland is 35,000-30,000 take home pay is around 28,000-26,000 after tax,
And yet the Irish people continue to vote in the same political parties FF and FG now known as FFG , the same parties who caused all of this as the have run the country since we got our independence in 1922
yea thats why i have no confidence going forward Ireland has been voting FF or FG one or the other or both since the 1930s on March 2 1932 Finna Fail entered Government beginning the cycle of FF and FG 92 years later and it's still continuing in reality FF and FG are the same party pretending to be different to give an illusion of choice
Same everywhere. It’s like we were all playing musical chairs and the music just stopped. Whoever had a house keeps it, who ever didn’t won’t ever get one.
Doesn't help that the current government gave immigrants the right to vote because they knew they might be kicked out of the country if an alternative government got in. Irish politicians are some of the sleaziest snakes on the planet.
That’s the thing. If things were as this report is suggesting, the two main parties of the previous government wouldn’t have been re-elected, would they?
That's what happens when young people are forced to leave to live a better life or highly encouraged to study abroad without any option to vote while abroad, even if you're living across the NI border.
The planning system is big problem, also the local authorities need to improve public infrastructure for new homes. The amount if refugees and migrants that moved here in a 4 year period has made it far worse. In 4 years about 500,000 people moved here, equal to about 10% of the population. The government denied that it has impacted the housing crisis doesn't help things. The government keep calling everyone a racist if they say the amount of immigrants moving here each year is contributing to the housing issues. Only skills workers earning over €40000 should be aloud to move here until the supply of housing improves.
We have similar problems in the UK too. We had 1 million move here in 2023. The immigration problem is two fold. Businesses need workers, but workers of the wrong skill level are here. Companies refusing to train people. You import people. They communicate its good here. More come. and the cycle repeats. Companies should be subject to higher taxes on workers who are on work visas Vs. those who were trained in their home country.
Notice that Ireland and other countries that are experiencing the same problem had only one ingredient added in the population? People don't want to say it due to the fear of being labeled as "racist", but not talking about the cause of the problem won't fix anything.
It isn't just one ingredient. It's multi layered with causes. Greed, free market capitalism, a shoneen government that never decolonised, the EU, the WEF, globalism, neocolonialism, mass migration, private ownership of indigenous land, diversity politics, apathy toward indigenous land and culture, etc
@@drentic That's not a simple question or answer. We'd have to define exactly what we mean. Irish people have partaken in colonising. That's indisputable. There have been Irishmen who sided with colonisers at least ever since Dermot McMurrough sold out Leinster to the Normans. Irishmen "took the king's shilling" in the following centuries and joined up with British military snd police. Irishmen who served with the British military were awarded land in Africa. Irishmen who survived their indenture in the Americas sometimes became plantation owners with slaves. Even the Irish who went over find a new life in America in the 1800s were unwittingly partaking in colonisation. They settled stolen land and helped build a railway that enabled the US expansion farther west into indigenous land in an imperialist campaign called "Manifest Destiny". We cannot claim that Irish are entirely exempt from colonial activities. But it should be remembered that the same can be said for most peoples. Africans engaged in slave trading. Indigenous Americans aided the federal government and kept slaves. Every nation ever colonised by Britain had members who joined the British military. Even today we cannot escape the fact that we contribute to colonisation simply by being consumers in a capitalist neocolonial market. The very phones we use require cobalt that's mined from the Congo against the wishes of the native people who live in that region. But what's also important to remember is that there is a hierarchy in colonisation and the Irish never sat at the top of it. Like the African Americans and the Indigenous Americans, the indigenous Irish were more often the oppressed rather than the oppressor. But I do view the modern Irish government as colonisers along with any industrialists and capitalists who support them. The Irish government sold mining rights to a private company to blow up the Hill of Allen, one of Ireland's most important and sacred sites. They do not give a tupenny fuck about the land or the indigenous people if either of those things gets in the way of profit. They secured independence from Westminster but they never decolonised the country. They retained the colonial machinery of government and they've only gotten worse today. Micheál Martin stood up in the Dáil, as leader of the country, and proudly voiced Ireland's submission to Brussels, stating "we want nothing to do with the outdated idea of sovereignty". 20% of Ireland's economy is reliant on foreign companies and landowners. So the Irish government overlook indigenous needs in order to please those companies and the globalist market. In my opinion that constitutes neocolonialism, when a corrupt government sells out it's own land and people to foreign powers, whether they be political or economic powers. Ireland is still colonised. When indigenous people cannot build a shelter on the indigenous land that's their birthright because that land is privately owned by foreigners, when a native village is told they have no say in the settlement of foreign migrants in their village, to such an extent that those natives become outnumbered by those foreigners, these are examples of colonisation in my view. Ireland is still colonised in my opinion. Only it's not colonised by the British. It's colonised by it's own government who effectively became Anglicised shoneen oligarchs prostituting the land to foreign oligarchs. Fair play if you actually read all this. If I could have answered with a simple yes or no I would have. But it isn't a simple subject.
My sister recently send me a job advert for Ireland, hoping I'd see it as a means to move back. EUR45-50k/year. She said that's brilliant money. In Canada I earn CAD$120k - however because Canada is so expensive that's still not enough to afford even a 2-bed condo....I feel like wages in Ireland are not good
That video would be perfect but one thing is missing - MICA and pyrite/sulfide crisis that make properties crumble with force people to break them and rebuild. Banks will not give mortgages to buy house affected by these things. Estimates for our region is that up to 30% properties are affected. That make a chunk of houses from second hand a impossible to buy as sellers can only offer them for cash. And you can expect who have 150k in cash to buy them and rent or live in....
Would've liked a deeper look into "what it takes" to build houses in Ireland and not just "there's too much demand and not enough skilled workers to build them"
Yes, this explanation seems entirely insufficient. If the whole problem were a lack of skilled workers who can build new homes, the same thing would happen as when Google and Apple established themselves in Ireland: the right kind of people would flock to the country, drawn by the opportunity. Whenever there is a huge demand and little supply, the market tends to adjust, as long as the government doesn't get in the way with regulations.
The main problems that were not mentioned in the video with the Housing Crisis in Ireland is that from 2016 to 2019, most of the political bandwidth and resources were used to insolate the Irish Economy & the Peace Process in the North from the damage of Brexit, this included over 400 meetings in every European Capital to protect the border and to construct Port Facilities and infrastructural projects to bye-pass the land-bridge, this cost Ireland a small fortune. There was a hiatus in the construction of 2 years during the pandemic leaving a shortfall of 60,000 houses, this shortfall will take at least 5 years to work its way through the system, which Ireland is in the middle of. The Irish Central Bank also mention the Labour Shortage in the Construction Sector, the reluctance of the Banking sector to give mortgages without very strict guidelines in place due to regulations brought in after the Financial Crisis of '10 and planning permission issues. I would also say that modern youth don't want live with their parents to save for five years to get a deposit for a mortgage unlike every generation before them..
This assesment is way off, we're getting ripped off on property tax and universal charges as a result of bailing out irresponsible bankers in 2009, now think about the fact that alot of people have already paid a stamp duty(property tax) upon purchase of a property,
i live in Monaghan town near where i live is a Ghost Estate that had been abandoned for 15 years 2009-2024 its finally been torn down and will be built into social housing there's also more plans for housing on the other end of the town there's housing under construction overlooking the bus station and even more council sign plans for housing so building work is underway here oh i almost forgot we have an Aldi under construction that will take our town from 4 Supermarkets to 5 town population at this point is roughly a little over 8,000 last census in 2022 we had just under 7,900 people so i think it's far to say we've cracked 8,000 at this moment speaking we have some homeless people but our housing issue is more county council housing waiting lists
@@kurtpunchesthings2411 A lot of Ghost Estates were stuck in the court system as ownership was a legal quagmire, where some parties owned unfinished houses and others parties mortgages on the unfinished houses & other owned business loans of the construction companies.
Well hey, at least the multi-billion dollar companies get to set up their HQs here with low corporate tax! Leave them alone, they are people too! This place is a fucking dump.
My neighbours daughter lives in Cork for work she house shares with a few other friends (to help with rent which is 4x what it is here in the north) her landlord told them due to circumstances they had to put the property up for sale. They did so at a slightly lower than average price. And got in one day 10,000 applicants
The average Rent for a house per month where I live is 2800 Euro's per month. (which nobody can afford) Average salary is 44K per year. (44K is probably a good salary considering retail/shop assistant/mcdonalds might be half that) You have income tax 20% to 40% PRSI Pay related social insurance tax 4.1% USC Universal social charge tax 2-4% If you own a home you have property tax. VAT Value Added tax of 23% on everything you buy. Ultility bills have doubled The cost of buying food has gone through the roof. Sugar Tax on drinks, A deposit Tax now on plastic or metal containers. Houses being built are getting smaller and more expensive and no single income person/family can afford to purchase one. They are being built with tiny driveways with no parking consideration for people that rent, I've seen semi-detached houses in suburban neighbourhoods with 5 cars and about 8 people living in a 4 bedroom house which is nuts. People growing into adulthood never being able to afford to rent or buy their own property doomed to share with housemates/friends/strangers On top of that every workplace has a focus on diversity......the native population are getting displaced. When you look around and feel like an minority in your workplace and neighbourhood its a strange feeling.
I'd like to react to the diversity part. They don’t focus on diversity for the sake of it; they do it because they pay foreigners less. I came to Ireland in 2016 from Slovakia. In 2019 I had to accept a starting salary of 24K as an architectural designer with a master degree in order to get back into my profession after spending a couple of years in hospitality, where I was earning much more! After 5 years, I managed to work my way up to 35K as a lead architectural designer, when my new manager (who is Irish and has no clue about the sector) told me not to get my hopes up because there wouldn’t be any yearly raises after this. I got up and left. I now work for myself and have a good income, I still live in Ireland. The problem lies with the employers. If they paid fair wages, there would be Irish people applying and working there. But if they are content with Brazilians, Indians etc. (who are all great, hardworking people too!) working for less money... Don’t blame the foreigners for this. Just have a look around on indeed.ie. Some offer 13eur/h for an architectural technologist and easily 14eur/h for a waiter (plus tips!!). It's outrageous.
Why does objectivity always falter when talking about the causes of a housing crisis? He says: "... they shifted to more lucrative private market and rental properties for which they were given subsidies." That's the only mention of subsidies, a massive government intervention with the market, even if well meant. The narrative is: "Never mind the finger in the scales; why aren't there more fingers?" Building houses is great; some government control is necessary, but subsidies are a great part of the mix, pushing prices up. The problem in Ireland and elsewhere is never resolved because part of the solution is to accept that regular people will pay for years of vote-winning policies that bloated and will continue to bloat the market. The longer it takes, the bigger the pain. Edit: I wrote this around the 15-minute mark. Then, at 15:14, they did come around to this point. 😅 Well done.
That's an interesting solution that would clearly fly nowhere in a neoliberalist economy. How dare you suggest taking away our right to earn vast sums of money money by doing nothing! And I could go on. Land banking is the key to neoliberalism it seems, and therefore the ability to artificially increase land prices. I like your solution by the way, then people would stop bitching about immigrants (clearly the root of all evil is immigration, not the system as it stands).
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Bad English. A fraction of the taxes 'than' they would at home. That is correct. Stop butchering english
It was not Irland who was booming, it was the corporation and maybe those few employed there. But 5 Million people can't work at Apple lol.
@@neckbro europe is an american colony. The city of london is a criminal organisation in london what about that?
institutional investment in the housing market is a result of the shortage, not the cause. this video is no good.
When 70% of your young people consider leaving your country you have destroyed your future.
Replacement
@@johnmcmenemy3864 That's exactly it. Mullingar, I see buses of Indians arriving every week. You can't walk around Tesco without the bang of Madras!
Yeah im getting out to asia, fuck this
As Ted would say though " that's a terrible defeatist attitude Dougal".😂
Ah really though, it's not surprising. This country has just gone beyond belief with things . I actually got lucky 6 years ago with buying a house for 145, 000 euros. 70 thousand now left on the mortgage. I can only imagine how fed up I would now be otherwise. I'm sure I would be contemplating emigrating.
The future is not destroyed, it's just that it's nothing but 'turkish' barber shops.
just switch out ireland for canada, britain or australia and it's the same story. Very sad
Also in the EU, I'm in Portugal and many are living in tents
And those Irish threatening to leave Ireland to so they can buy a house somewhere else usually go to those countries too.
The anglosphere don't understand that this is a global issue.
@@Waferwafermagiccracker the mass immigration from third world countries is definitely unecessary
@@josedacosta5197 Indeed. Even European countries in the east that might be considered less developed are hit by this. Makes you wonder why is this happening.
No. It is profoundly worse by degree in Ireland. I have been to all of those countries.
I emigrated to Ireland in 2012 for postgraduate education and I could live off my eastern European savings for about a year without a job. I integrated well and worked in Ireland many years before it became impossible to see a future for myself there. I worked in public sector and could not afford rent in a studio for myself. Finally decided to leave after the pandemic end of 2022 and have a much better quality of life in Eastern Europe. I remember feeling extremely fortunate to be able to afford a 2 bedroom apartment rent by myself here, it's insane how expensive life in Ireland is and it warps your mind. I'm much happier here and I'm able to save money, even if a house is still out of my price range, the prices have risen here as well in the last 2 years that you can't afford a house on one income anymore. I loved Ireland and had many friends there but it kills your spirit. I'm not surprised things have gotten far worse since I left. 😢
So basically you came over, used up our resources and when we had no more to offer you, you left.
where in Eastern Europe? I'm seriously thinking of getting out of here asap
@@World36599 Cry about it, we did it for decades. Everyone does it.
@@World36599this person worked in the public sector in Ireland, what do you mean using up our resources you must be daft
@@World36599 You're Delusional. They arrived, went to college, worked for 10 years, then emigratied, paying tax the whole time they were here. Not unlike the 70% of young people looking to emigrate now due to the state the govt have left it.
I live in Ireland and the it’s basically a one party state with no realistic political option to change anything.
Indeed. It's not far off a dictatorship.
The issue lies in the fact the middle aged people with decent houses from before the price spike are going to vote the party that wants to keep their house at a high value. The parties more to the right that are aiming for better change in housing are going to plummet the persons house value. That’s why fianna fail and Fine Gael still get a lot of votes. Something needs to change as a native Irishman I love my culture but it’s being heavily disrupted over time.
@@galaxyred7 Exactly!! i keep saying the same thing to people around me but they refuse to listen. Yet it is obvious why most people vote FF/FG, they want to keep house prices high. So when we understand that, we also understand that the country is fucked since most people want to keep it that way.
@@gloriabartolome3123 as a 19 year old I’m incredibly lucky that I will inherit my sisters property out the back of my house in the future whenever she leaves. But I feel for so many young Irish adults rn
Sounds like the UK then
I emigrated to the US, from Dublin, in January 1990. At one point, I had in my mind to spend my retirement years 'back home', playing golf, fishing, strolling the hills, etc.
Ummmm, nope.
Stay in a trump country… good luck
@@livi116 Why yes! He is the lucky one!
Like the tax cut that triggered the massive growth in ireland over night and hoe much trump fixed on his first day. It is blatantly obvious whats good for the people isnt always good for goverment. If there were real consequences for the bidens of the world things would a whole lot better.
@@livi116 you people will wake up one day. Be too late by then, probably already is.
Ireland needs a trump@@livi116
Same story in Canada and from what I've heard in Australia, most of Europe and South America...EVERYWHERE you go it is getting almost impossible to JUST SURVIVE... Yet people are looking at politicians to save them... They're in the millionaire club and WE AIN'T IN IT!
Politicians are bought and sold by the rich, who are the real problem.
Most politicians in those countries aren't rich. Not saying they're necessarily struggling, but if the image you have is a bunch of wealthy people in top hats and monocles, you have the wrong idea.
south americans are coming up to the united states and getting housed and money here.
Yep here in Australia costs are extortionate, people overloaded with debt and 40 year mortgages now available.
All the politicians are corrupted, bought and paid for by for by rich capitalist plutocrats
Our government is a disgrace, change the planning law and allow Irish people build house on the land they own.
Its the people who vote for FF/FG Sin fein labour green social democrarts are a disgrace sick of people like u complain remembers its the thickos who vote for them
Crazy that the same government got in this time around. Will be the same problem for the next 4 years.
They sold our country to the ECB and IMF for the bank bail out after being blackmailed into it by Angela Merkel with her threath to bankrupt the country if we tried to burn the senior bond holders . It's not our country any more , it's owned by the invisable people in the shadows of the IMF/ECB , they're the ones now calling the shots .
It's ridiculous
Such a pathetic country
Twenty years ago Polish people came to work in Ireland because they had a poor economy.... Now Irish people want to move to Poland. Its scary how quickly this happened. The history books will look back on this period as a time were greed and corruption got WAY OUT OF HAND
Warsaw is an amazing city compared to Dublin
I worked with a lot of those Poles back in the early 2000s. They worked their bollocks off and were great craic. When things picked up in their own country most of them headed home (to me that felt like around 2010/2011). I have a lot of time for Polish people. They set a great standard for what an immigrant should be and can achieve and I think Ireland and Poland share a lot of emotional ties (mainly around our Catholicism which, even though we Irish hate to admit it, has shaped and defined our country and its attitudes for centuries as well as being Europe's underdogs in the 70s and 80s when Britain were really sticking it to the catholics up north and Russia was breaking Poland's balls during the same period).
@@Etcher exactly the same story here... Im Irish too and have nothing but respect for Polish people, their work ethic is fantastic, they are resourceful and full of common sense as well as being friendly and polite. I've visited Poland on holiday three times as a result of Polish people iv worked with. To be fair they have a great country, there are still poor parts that need developed but every country has that. I don't blame them for going back home, I would have done the same
Funny thing is you likely won't get a job in Poland as an irish person ,they want to hire Polish people oh the irony
Already got out of hand we are only seeing it now … got out of hand years ago
I returned to Ireland in 2007 after ten years in Finland. Even back then I got into arguments about housing and how it's completeled f**ked. If I wasn't in my 50's I would go back in the morning.
- Stop investment companies.
- Ban short term lets
- Regulate the building industry
"One third of all hotel rooms in Ireland house asylum seekers" that's crazy
It has also killed the tourist industry. People used to flock to Ireland for trips and leave their money behind keeping Ireland green. Now it is too expensive and no one wants to experience riots, mayhem, poverty and homelessness on their holidays
@@somersetdc That is not true for a start. During the Summer, there was an American Football game between Georgia Tech and Florida State University, held in the Aviva Stadium and it had the largest attendance of Americans, of over 27,000, going to see a match outside the States..
That is a lie made up by your british handlers to force a partition on the Island of Ireland, according to Fáilte Ireland the total stock of registered tourist beds under contract for refugees was just 7% in 2024 compared to 12% in 2023. Between November 2023 and July 2024 the UK Government had weaponised over 7,000 refugees and forced them over the Irish Border, this was the number the Gardai caught..
It's impossible to find a hotel room in rural Ireland for under 300 euros per night
Who owns Irish hotels? It's all going to natives. The money taken from natives is going back to natives. What are you complaining about? And most of those are Ukrainians that came as a result of Nato's expansion to Russia's borders. You reap what you sow.
Im Irish and this is a very realistic take on the whole situation. Rent is so high, buying a house is almost impossible. Irish citizens who have paid tax all of their lives are now left homeless, but the government seems to almost have an agenda to allow more unskilled, illegal migration / those faking true asylum or refugee status.
Ireland has such a small population and a tiny infrastructure. When people say “Ireland is full” it doesn’t mean there is no land - it means there aren’t enough hospitals, houses, schools, care homes etc currently, let alone if we take in even more people.
It is truly depressing and I’m thinking of leaving
I'm glad I was able to find out about the situation in Ireland. Now I know where I should avoid migrating to ;)
Remember when Ireland was the Celtic Tiger, and then part of the "I" in the P.I.G.S. of the EU.
Ireland has to get put of the E.U. and deport the immigrants
Irish can't migrate to the USA, because of the racist immigration policies of the USA., since 1966.
White European have the lowest quota migrating to the USA.
You can thank this to Teddy Kennedy.
The only reason Musk is in the USA is because his mother was Canadian. Musk could have never entered the USA as a South African because the USA won't accept white refugees from South Africa even though White South African farmers are being killed.
Once the immigrants coming into Ireland become the majority, then you will get the same treatment.
What annoys me is we put the blame on the immigrants. Nah mate parnell been banging this bell since the 1900s. Property exclusively for investment is morally repugnant. We have the homes. So many derelict home homes that are owned by someone who has no interest selling or renting the damn thing.
There is a landowner who owns 5-6 properties in loughrea and buys more not to rent not to sell but to accrue value. Put laws in place that puts heavy taxes on landowners who own properties that sit unused. You wanna leave it for your familly then sign it to there name and stop using property as some investment bull£%^&.
@@zarathos888 Couldn't agree more 👏
We used to travel to Dublin from Belfast for shopping cos it was cheaper, but once Euro became the new currency, prices jumped up significantly. The last time I looked at a 3 bedroom terrace for sale, it was almost half a million!! I feel for the Irish.
I've been living in Ireland since 2016 and have been swapping accomodation once every 2 years...atm I'm paying nearly 2k a month in rent as a single dad and my total rent paid since I've arrived to the country is between 200-250k! Yet I cannot get a mortgage even though I paid off the price of a house in less than 9 years, not once have I been not working full time not once have I missed a rental payment or utility bill yet I'm getting shafted left right and centre 👍
It's set up this way to keep you poor and the rich rich.
Capitalism baby 🎉
A single parent and a full-time worker? Does that mean you pay childcare as well?
Doubling down on immigration in the middle of a housing crisis is crazy.
who builds the homes ? we need better training of course but it really is a resource issue , the billionaires get more resource and we migrants and natives alike are getting less
All part of The Plan.
@FourteenWords-n4l We have the same thing in the US with the current administration allowing millions of illegals into the country. "Replacement Theory" isn't a theory. It's a plan.
@ricclark8162Considering the majority of new immigrants are single middle aged men, the majority of whom never enter employment, you have no point.
Exactly! That's why we need 50 thousand Brazilian fast food delivery drivers in Dublin@ricclark8162
Politicians were warned about housing bubble was going to burst 20 years ago but they never did anything now it's my generation how are paying the price in action.
They had the option to declare a crisis over a decade ago and get help and they refused that too.
yea thats the sad part they were well well warned what was coming
should have implemented a strategy of BUILD BUILD BUILD if they had started in 05 we either have no housing crisis or it's significantly less damaging
@@kurtpunchesthings2411 100% correct my fellow monster drink lover body
The problem is that the housing bubble DIDN'T BURST, like everyone thought. It's still going up and up in price. And realistically, unless there is a sudden and massive drop in population, how will it ever stop?
@@LM-gc6pk oh I Wonder why Ireland's population keeps climbing 🤔🤔 definitely not because the government has a disastrous immigration policy that helps no one
Ireland's being flooded with dependants and unproductive individuals unfortunately. It's bad enough that we were struggling to house our own people, but now we're somehow expected to house the world too. The worst part is that so many idiots still say "immigration isn't the problem" - yes, it isn't 'the' problem, there are multiple problems and excessively high immigration levels is certainly a large one, as well as abysmal planning system and NIMBYs.
Anyone who says otherwise is denying reality: we are completion 30k homes per year while growing our population by 70k+, which means we are compounding the issue as the housing crisis has been a disaster for 10+ years now.
So, the problem is house building, not immigration. Now, scratch deeper and you will find construction is lagging, because we don't have the people for the jobs. . .
According to the government we need immigrants so that we can build more houses for immigrants
Pretty stupid right?
@@Catnificent well if there aren't enough people that can build houses it actually makes sense.
@@Leosch633 the refugees are not building anything, but will happely live from goverment welfare
The houses would not be needed if the flood of foreigners did not occur
The governments of the world are clamping down on corporate tax havens like Ireland. When that happens, there will be no reason for Apple, Microsoft, and Google to stay abroad and will return to the USA, leaving a financial black hole in Irelands' budget. With no money, a looming world recession, and a million plus migrants to care for what could go wrong. ??
My story over here. In 2024, I joined Garda Siochana. As I have no family in Ireland and Garda college refused to allow me to stay in college during the weekends, I had to rent a house in Thurles. After some time, I had to leave, because my rent expired and I had to look for some other place to stay. I went to live in the farm and I was unfairly expelled by the owner. It was enough for me, I went back to Brazil and that was the best decision I took.
Are you still commuting to the garda college from Brazil?
@@karlgurhy4287 No, I just left it.
sorry to hear that. i'm leaving soon
You made a great decision as the gardai are a total failure. Worst in europe and beyond by far.
A Garda that's not Irish, I could never have any respect for them, I don't have for the Garda, but a foreigner no fucking way.
I moved to Ireland in 2004. I integrated well, married Irish man, went to college and got PhD and got job in public sector. State is trying to screw public sector workers so much, it is not even funny. We have now 2 small boys and childcare cost is more than a mortgage. We are high earners and we are living quite comfortable but wouldnt drive new cars, spend on hairdresses, clothes etc. We eat well and go for a 2 holidays per year. But we are over 40 now and only bought ahouse that needs complete retrofit. I really feel sorry for the young generation now. You really need combine income at least 120k to afford decent house and start family. At the same time, lot of young people are so bad with money, spending 250 on haircuts, drive new cars on high purchase and waste hundreds on subscriptions that they will never save for deposits.
Good point. Same in Italy. Personal finance should be taught in school as well as at home.
In Hungary if your first child is born you don't pay interest after your mortgage, 2nd child the gov write 30% off the mortgage + no interest, 3rd child they write the whole mortgage off.
Lots of kids in Hungary then...
@@gulfstream7235I would imagine that’s the point lol
@gulfstream7235 it takes time of course
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Yeah, but if you are single and over 25 you need to share room with others if you rent and will never get your own place, also forget retirement too....
You have barely referenced the fact that the massive influx of Ukrainian refugees coming into Ireland in 2022, which can be said to have caused the anti immigration rhetoric because they were given €200 a week by the government, housing, social benefits etc which the other people in Direct Provision did not receive, also this fuelled the anger of the Irish people whom a lot of them weren't able to get housing themself. Therefore the problem overall was caused by bad government policy- and the blame should not have been put on refugees from other countries seeking asylum but on the government itself.
@curlybobs2
That drifts away from the Headscarf people invading their country NARRATIVE. So, of course, it's gonna be left out.
The entire channel is full of Why living in UK, Australia, Germany etc. impossible. The racial undertones are very prevalent on this channel.
Pretty sure the guy has never even visited half of these countries he's making videos about and claiming to know so much about their Economy's distress.
@@jaiahuja6560 OH yes "racial undertones"! So you're saying Germany is perfectly safe the New Years eve was a fun party for all, Nothing Happened to the Christmas Markets and nothing Happened in Koln in 2015?
yea there's about 110,000 of them in Ireland and most if not all of them have 0 intention on ever leaving regardless when the war ends
the reality is the longer the war continues the more will keep flooding into the country hell if the war ended tomorrow i would fully expect campaigns being launched to allow the refugees sons brothers fathers etc come to Ireland to be with their families
Simply put 150,000 immigrants are given priority over Irish who were born and raised there.
Rents skyrocket because the Government pays rental property owners double or more to house immigrants...and the Irish Cutzens dont have the luxury of their rent being paid by Government
Ireland's housing crisis is simple. There are 2 factors: insanely restrictive laws around real estate development and even more insane immigration policy. Having over 100k net migration per year in a country of 4,5 million is absolutely delirious. But having perhaps the most restrictive zoning and development laws in the world on top of that is the killing blow.
It is now minimum 5.3 million in the republic.
@@patrickscott838 tomaito tomato. Even at 5.5 million , 100k per year is 2% increase JUST bc of immigration. That alone is higher than the fertility rate of any other european country.
Actually a massive part of the problem is highlighted here in the video. Housing being snapped up by investment funds. The government has no appetite to fix this as ultimately this is everyone's pension. I.e. the investment funds are pension funds.
So you can thank Michael Noonan in large part for this in Ireland.
However this same issue is everywhere. BlackRock are buying up houses across the US leading to the same affordability and availability crisis.
@@Brishtah absolute cope. When you have to wait 2 or more years to get approval for a building that can't even be more than 8 or 10 stories tall,and still get denied, you will have a massive problem. Not to even mention the obvious fact that if you keep adding 2% population growth from immigration alone, you'll run out of housing even faster and end up with situations like what we live today, with daft rental listings being flooded with 1k+ applications mere minutes after they go on the site, and having 500+ mortgage applications for a350/400k two bedroom semi detached house on the outskirts of the city.
@@shreder89yes the planning procedures are awful. The government have finally introduced new laws and approaches there last year, time will tell if they make a difference.
Also agreed Dublin city should go high rise.
But we also need to prevent investment funds from buying up half of what's built and then renting it out at extortionate rates, or in some cases letting it sit idle and appreciate value on a balance sheet. That's only good for the fund itself.
Same problem in all western nations. Very sad
WEF, Klause Swabb has stolen Ireland from under your nose.
Neoliberalism
Plus a big helping of anti-semitism on top.
The Great Reset WEF
Conflation doesn't help Ireland. Do you have somewhere to live?
Very well put together video. I've lived in Ireland for almost 20 years (originally from the UK) and this year we had a general election. Even though people were unhappy with the current institution, same parties were voted which i didn't really understand. Public spending has gotten out of control. Just have a look at the bike shed the government built cost around 350k-400k and then they built a security hut at one of the government buildings that costs around 1.4M. A HUT! NOT A BUILDING A TINY SHACK.
The system does not allow for change , unfortunately 😢
Irish voters never learn. They voted for their total demise Nov 2024. Game over now.
I believe election wasn't right another 500 thousand votes was brought in. Too corrupt on every level .
2:49 I'm Irish. I left in 2018. I should have left sooner. I had a degree and had not been able to get work. I was living at home and I was on social welfare because I had no job. I regularly volunteered at jobs and took odd temp jobs to try make up for it. I felt so sick of not being able to afford to live. I left and my quality of life tripled. There are still issues but now I can afford to live on my own, have a really good job and can afford to actually save money.
Lastly: its pronounced KELL-TIC tiger not SELL-TIC tiger 😂 in b4 you get heaps of abuse
Pardon sir, but Larry Bird disagrees on that last point.
Where did you go, sis?
@miguels.b.2749 not far, I went to Scotland and my sister went to Spain. We've both been able to support ourselves having moved.
@@kerrithornton You moved to a country with a bigger housing crisis than Ireland with higher unemployment than Ireland... so how did that improve your situation?
It’s good that things are going well but there was full employment and a booming job market in 2018. There still is.
It's not supply and demand when it comes to homes.
My country went from 10-11 million population down to 6.5 million from 1991 to 2024. During that same period we have built 3-4x more homes in big cities than there were 30-35 years ago. Yet in the 90s the median home(which was 71-74m^2) costed 2-3x median yearly salaries, now the median home(which is 48-52m^2) costs 9-12x median yearly salaries.
Why? Because big companies and rich people buy out all the homes, or straight up build them, then price them using algorithms to get the price as high as possible and this is price fixing, but since the governments are incompetent it is not considered price fixing.
36-40%+ of homes are empty in big cities where 80%+ of people live btw, it's not a supply issue.
Bulgaria?
@@iseeyou3129 Correct.
@@rattlehead999 but whats the reason of depopulation in Bulgaria?
@@iseeyou3129 The west was great until the early 2000s, so after the CCCP fell and people were allow to leave the country on top of having a lot of jobless people, people went west to gain wealth.
In the past decade our living standard has risen so much that our purchasing power has almost reached the western European country.
Also CCCP countries were the first countries to have low birth rates.
Nowadays I'd pick Poland, Bulgaria or Romania over western European countries, much more freedom, almost as good purchasing power and I like the culture better, no we are not conservative btw, overall we are much more progressive than western countries, just not in everything.
Also I hate huge cities, I find even the capital of my country to be ginormous, let alone western country big cities.
To crack down on this type of abuse, some places in Canada have brought in a vacant home tax. It will be interesting to see how much of an effect this has.
There isn't anything a government can't screw up. The sad part is the people vote into office those who don't have their interest in mind.
The Irish had a chance to change things but they keep voting the same muppets back into power.
only boomers vote
We essentially have a one party system with no real dissidents in government. Aontu is the only party with a significantly different stance than our previous governments.
This is the real issue. Half the countries registered voters didn’t even bother showing up last election. Callans Kicks got it right with Harris being a puppet. He does what the EU tells him and nothing else. Can’t even walk through Westport without being ran out of town!
That isn't accurate. A large majority of the population didn't vote them back in. Fianna Fáil got the largest vote count but it only amounted to roughly 13% of the electorate actually voting for them. Most people voted for opposition parties but opposition was so divided among so many parties that no single one of them achieved enough votes to form a government. Fianna Fáil and Fianna Gael have very little real support but it's still enough for them to ally with each other and fill the required seats. It's a rigged system designed to make it very difficult to get rid of the conventional establishment. There should be an elimination vote prior to the electoral vote in order to eliminate parties people definitely don't want. That would tidy it up and ensure an outcome that better reflected public desire. It isn't real democracy because it isn't designed to reflect the reality of what the public want. It's a scam and I am probably not going to vote again. I'm fed up legitimising a corrupt system.
Edit: It's also wrong that the government can decide when to hold an election. It allows them to choose a time when polls favour them. The decision to hold an early election should rest with the people.
Look at how many illegal voters are on the Irish Republic Voting Registry….. 500,000
Honestly that’s so common that seems normal in Europe. I live in Madrid and the situation is exactly the same and from friends who live in other European capitals I know that it’s like that everywhere
Absolutely not. It is bad everywhere. Ireland is exceptionally bad.
Also here in Portugal, Lisbon and Porto are unaffordable for Portuguese people and nowadays are full of immigrants, specially men. Its everywhere in Europe.
But the root off the problem is the national citizens themselves, that continue to vote and want free stuff, so social parties are always on the power, building and creating more state, that requires more maintenance and requires more taxes. Meanwhile people cant afford a home, they delay marriage and starting a family for their thirties when p.e. women are already at risk of not been able to have children.
Unless there is a significant drop on taxes, both personal and company taxes, so that people and companies have more money at their disposal, I dont see how can this change. Specially because people, dont see the direct impact off their political choices.
Time for REVOLOTION! Or we all will end up in tents.
@@CesarLuisAfonsoDias kinda hope france never goes to the right and stays left. thats the only country id support letting randoms in
@CesarLuitsAfonsoDias True.
As an Irish person this video is missing some extremely important information. 10,500 homeless figures are not the official homeless figures. This number only counts people waiting on or in emergency accommodation, does not count hidden homelessness such as people couch surfing, living in hostels and not registered as doing so, and many other cases. The actual figure is a lot higher. Ireland has 102,000 vacant and derelict homes at minimum and government and councils actively avoid collecting additional taxes these homes are subject to and do nothing about them. Why? Because a huge majority of our government are themselves landlords, and creating scarcity for a necessity means record profits.
Immigration is only a key issue as it’s being used by the far right as a racist scapegoat and serves as a distraction from government corruption. Anyone with two working brain cells in Ireland can do the maths. We know that if the govnment, the courts and the councils wanted, housing wouldn’t be an issue. We don’t even have a RIGHT to housing in our constitution, a referendum people have been calling for for a decade but the government has continuously pushed aside.
Many of the houses built during the Celtic tiger were also not to standard, not to even mention the scandalous homes falling apart being covered up by the government in Donegal. Also the majority of new houses being built are being completely bought up by vulture funds, large for profit housing companies, many of them foreign, buying up 100s of homes at a time and selling them for unaffordable prices. This is not an immigration problem. This is a greed problem. Racists and landlords out!
100%
“The government are landlords so lets use the government to stop the landlords” oh my fucking GOD you’re going to make it worse
Yep, people are quick to point to immigration legal or otherwise as the issue here, but in reality it's those in charge turning Ireland into a landlord state.
How many of them are drog adic and having treatment clinics free and accommodation but they prefer using drogs and doing violent moves when social payments are not enought .
I work in one of the hotels housing 'refugees' and i can confirm that 80+% are purely economic migrants by their own accounts. I'm sure it's higher but 80% is about the number who tell me their friend told them to come here, it was the land of milk and honey. One room costs the taxpayer £210 per night. (Northern Ireland, we use GBP). They get to jump the queue at A&E and get prioity healthcare and dentistry.
We know but the politicians and do-gooders don't care
I can confirm that they do not get to jump the queue at A&E! Which leads. me to question the veracity of the rest of your story.
You're from the UK hun
The report isn’t about Northern Ireland and I doubt if they occupants have bared their souls to you because you sound a bit racist, tbh.
@userxyz64 that sounds a bit over the top..however, we are not blind...we have loads of annecdotes of social housing used for folks from outside europe...north or south, i.e. thru simon community / fingal or farther very mistrust who now needs to be bailed out
I'm 44 and planning my exit in the next year or two.
10 -12 years ago I was on the dole and was financially better off than I am now while working.
What's the plan? Australia and New Zealand have similar issues with house prices (unless you head to the likes of Dunedin or Adelade maybe). Not possible to emigrate to the US unless you get referred in on a qualification and job offer. Canada is insanely expensive too.
Spain, maybe?
@@Noobsaibot21 I think Spain would be cheaper but without a remote job I think the salary is meant to be pretty abysmal. As you said though, so many people emigrate but go to countries with the exact same problems but hey maybe the weather is better 😅
@@CodeWithPaulIoSpain has great public services too. No 4 year wait for hospital appointments there. Police seen working unlike IRL. Better there in many ways
10-12 years ago was a totally different era and different world. Lots has happened since.
Pole here - use to live in Ireland for 17 years... Use to be reasonable if not good. Last 5-7 years was just scary if it goes to cost of live - I was renting... Took my toys and gone back to old sandox - Living happily in Poland for last 2 Years. Still Love Irealand - but hey... Irish system kicked me out in the way. All the best to Paddys - You will get there. Cheers!.
You answered your own question: financialisation of the housing market. The same problem in the US, Canada, the UK etc. Stop banks and corporate giants from buying homes and you fix the problem instantly!
So you can want to completely kill the rental market? Let's mentally move back to the 90s when nobody heard of mass illegal migration: where does your student son live In a new town? How do you start a family with zero budget? You rage against those greedy capitalists at your own peril.
Somehow, housing needs to be made boring again. Not a proxy for the entire economy.
THIS! I feel the video focus a bit too much on immigration rather than on this, which is the real issue and the main reason why rents are prohibitively high all over Ireland.
THIS is the real root cause, not immigration! Migrants make the shortage more severe but they aren't the cause of the shortage.
Yep, im an American and this is our biggest issue but no one wants to acknowledge it but all of our problems stem from it: corporate greed
Please forgive my inhumane response, but for a country as wealthy and as small as ireland, this shouldnt be a problem.
I could literally change this overnight, by enacting a few laws and spending a bit of money, which ireland has and can get.
This isnt india, S Korea, The USA, Nigeria, etc where its slightly more complicated.
It seems like the irish government want it like this.
You assume the politicians are intelligent.
@Rick_Cleland I'm just on the outside looking in, and in retrospect, most politicians are smarter then most of the population.
If they're born into that position, it would be a different story, but they had to finish school, which most of the population have not, then they're trained as politicians. This is for every politician everywhere, only monarchs hand down the country, no matter how the heir may feel.
Even if the politicians are a bunch of numptys! If they're humble they would listen to one of the populace.
I tell you what?
Instead of marching for a day, if all the protesters constantly flooded the email of the politician in charge of housings inbox, they might make a difference.
I honestly believe demonstrating is too much too soon, and it doesn't solve the problem, but creates more! And instead of getting the attention of the right people, all it does it get the attention of the police. Bobby who's been on the beat for a year, has no power to reform Ireland housing, immigration and laws.
Wait I'm curious what would you do
@NachoTin 😬 your Q actually asks me to clarify a plan I've enacted with the Dublin council, but since I'm not under an NDA and I'm not a greedy person, I can share with you a few.
1. The Irish population is very small at 5.26m, with a large enough country for even 10x as many people.
London is so much smaller, yet they have about a 10m population, with it swelling comfortably to about 13-14m due to commuters, tourists, students, immigrants both legal and illegal.
2. Reading between the lines, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, etc have conservation areas, and although these are important, conservation areas are overshadowed by homelessness.
What they should do is minimise any historical conservation areas and remove landscape C A's, and build more housing.
3. Instead of letting money hungry greedy contractors be the sole contractor of construction projects, the government should use some of the incredible wealth they've acquired, and build affordable housing.
Architects are clever (😅 I hope so, I'm one, and would be disastrous if we weren't) so I'm sure the government could commission 10 architects to design 10-50 apartments of 50-100 units each, in 5 cities, which not only look like they deserve to be in Ireland but have a pristine interior. Which actually isn't that much. This would at least curb the rising prices of accommodation.
Remember, the whole country can't (and shouldnt) go to school, come out with an Ma in surgery, accounting, engineering, law, etc.
1. Every place needs it's blue collar workers, it's cleaners, bus drivers, shop assistants, police officers, refuse collectors, farmers, etc
And
2. This promotes healthy growth, which in turn provides tax money.
I really don't understand the want of countries to have a big bank account? Having lots of cash means nothing if you have so many homeless people.
Or
Let's make this smaller, relatable.
If your parents were rich, but then you lived in a hut, whilst they lived in a mansion, you'd be angry! Wars start because of things like this.
@@sandrajones8245 What you propose is bad and is not a solution
Welfare migrants replacing Irish citizens on council housing lists 👎👎👎
I'm from ireland, been and raised here and I want out
Plenty of room in the US.
Come to japan housing is cheap eating out is cheap health care is extremely cheap but we have earthquake if you can buy houses they can't be guaranteed
@@輿石智子When you say that, housing is cheap, whereabout are you talking? I guess not tokyo right?
Leave and allows others to take you place....
@@wexfordindy I Mr someone is unemployed or otherwise struggling with low pay and high rent, I think it can be useful to go to another country and make money, even off the books. Save up enough to buy land in Ireland and create intentional communities, grow food, home school, etc.
my friend has a tree service and can’t find reliable workers even if she is paying $30 an hour cash. She has a place for them to sleep comfortably.
Just a lot of people living off welfare and food cards, drinking and drugging. Anyone with handy skills could save thousands in a season. Firefighter agencies pay huge in Canada too.
Same problem as in many other countries. Greed kills human civilization. Too many houses and flats are empty just serving as investment. The way back exists - put local citizens to the first place in front of investors and rise taxes for empty properties to make them available for people. But no government does it as the force of rich companies is too big.
I left Ireland in 2011, but I still pay a mortgage on a five bedroom house I bought in '06. I'd love to rent it out and take away the burden of paying the mortgage, but the RTB (residential tenancies board) says that it's unsuitable as a rental property because of "issues" such as horizontal stair banisters that a baby could fall through, windows that open beyond 20 degrees, posing a risk that a child might fall out, no "vents" in the windows for air circulation, and a list of other such complaints. I would have to spend around ten thousand Euro to solve these so called problems, none of which are actually making the house unlivable for adult tenants. Then I hear stories about a lack of rental properties, rent too high etc. While I accept that a rental home should be livable, these regulations are preventing my property (technically still the bank's property) from going on the market. Our politicians are far too interested in virtue signalling and feathering their own nests. I won't be moving back anytime soon.
I left in 2011 too. Came back in 2021. Tenants had done a lot of damage to our house. No real recourse to justice. Had a problem getting them out. Will never rent again.
@@jarlathbrophy5665 witch hunt against small landlord. Rtb and courts support tenant even if they dont pay rent. Landlord is stuck with bills and providing service, pays 52% tax on rent and treated very badly
@ Sorry to hear that.
The " Virtue Signaling " Is just a cover for avaricious opportunism. Any Bureaucrat knows that there is no power in " Yes " there is only power in " No ". Yes has to be bought or extracted legally in a rigged system. The entire structure of Western governments is essentially an extortion/protection racket. Stop listening to Leftists and do what needs be done to save ourselves.
Exact same thing happened to our landlord. We were happy renting the house. RTB demanded €12k+ in repairs to the house including windows, rewiring etc etc. we had no choice but to either leave and be homeless or buy the house as landlord decided to sell it rather than do the recommended ‘work’. Laughable RTB making a family homeless. Couldn’t make it up. Thank god we worked with the landlord and saved hard, we’re about to draw down the mortgage on the house now. Nowhere else to rent or buy where we’re living.
Sorry that happened to you I hope your property goes up in value
Here in Germany they also wanna move 150 people to a 180 people village
The major is from the center-right CDU and wants to enforce his decision
This isn't the first time this happens with the CDU and they wonder why nobody takes them seriously on migration
And if the locals don't agree to this, they are labeled as ignorant right wing racists who will vote for the evil AfD
What is Christian about them? Leftist woke garbage in disguise, as 99% politicians in Germany
It's shocking they are more popular than the AFD. I'm an outsider though so what do I know
@fieldmojo5304 im also Ausländer. 10 years in Germany, you can't understand them, not from logical perspective.
AfD! Stand up. Take your country back.
The riots happened after small Irish children were stabbed outside of their school by an immigrant.
I bet that those worms in your government are squirming, thinking... About what would happen if they fell into the hands of the angry Irish people that they spend all their time attacking from the shadows, thinking that they're safe. It brings me great pride to say that I never backed down from someone who thought it would be a good idea to take advantage of me or attacked me from the shadows. I fight back. As a matter of fact I have a court date because I chose to defend myself from someone who thought it would be a good idea to turn on me. The funny thing is is that they think it's all fun and games until they realize that you are serious and you will use that weapon that you pulled out. It would be their Worst Nightmare. Worst Nightmare. Worst Nightmare... I personally think it's time to make someone's dreams come true.
Garda and Fire brigades were standing still...
@@Mmc288 Make them pay!!!
snd the only person who stopped the attacker was another brazilian immigrant. the irish rioters then luted the shops for the newest pair of runners.
@Doobidoobidoohaha Not true at all. The Brazilian was the second one on the scene, the first man was an Irish man but of course mainstream media don't report that.
I live in letterkenny ireland also known as letterkenya . You can drive down the main street and not see a local.
The government could fix this easily..they could fast forward building permits..but they don't want to. Ireland keeps running a dicifit in building permits every year. Everything else is just noise. Approve 250k building permit this year, and in 3 years, everything us fix. Now homeowners will hate this because rent and home price will stagnate or go down..
I wouldn't even say 250k building permits, more likely 100K in one year and 30k annually after that,.
100% correct.. unlike what this guy says, regulations are the problem .. my good friend in Wexford has been unable to sell his beautiful house for years due red tape about something in how it was constructed 30 years ago ..so so costly and dumb.
government is always the problem
💯. It's so obvious. Yet, the low information types blame immigration, asylum, EU, etc. Always blame the foreigner. Never the reality ,which is your neighbor, and his TD trying to protect his home values.
Only trouble is they are just going to keep bringing them in. It`s never ending.
@DaveMurphyDublin-x5r
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The only people who "welcomed refugees" into Ireland were government funded NGOs.
The vast majority of Irish people have always opposed illegal immigration into Ireland.
Back in 2004 a Whopping 79% of Irish people voted in a referendum to stop giving out citizenship to illegals.
Agreed none of us wanted this we saw what a disaster it would be and it is a disaster, all successive governments fault no one else. Cannot figure out are they stupid or evil, I think both. They ignored the people of Ireland's wishes, they are PAID to listen to us and act in our best interests, they did the exact opposite.
That is a lie, most asylum seekers aren't illegal as most are women and children from Ukraine and between November 2023 and July 2024 the Gardai caught the UK Government had weaponised over 7,000 refugees and forced them over the Irish Border with threats they would be deport to Rwanda, so illegal refugees in Ireland are sent here by the UK Government..
this is entirely false, what are you talking about. We're literally one of the most friendly and welcoming places on the planet and we are famous for it. lol what a troll.
@@madbun1312 plus even if we were always against illegal immigration which usal just means refugees getting somewhere through unofficial means which in the case if you're a refugee isn't actually illegal even that is a tiny portion that make up the people coming here.
@@madbun1312 Our generosity has been taken advantage of ; when the people snap, look out!
Bravo sir 👏🏼 Not only does this video cut deep and genuinely hurts me to watch, it highlights the true reality of my home country.
I won’t bore readers with my full story but to sum it up in a few words.
I don’t think I’ll be able to afford the luxury of introducing my first born to their grandmother, it’ll simply be to expensive and I don’t see the current state of the country changing anytime soon 🇮🇪
Getting divorced, only on an average wage. I'm fooooooked.
Things will work out. Stay strong 🙏
Well I got a child that I support and love dearly, but that's just about what I can afford in Ireland as a first wave immigrant, child support + car loan+ rent+ bills= nothing left. I am fooked too :D and I work in pharma sector, like I can't afford to start a new family. Too many ppl r in the same boat
Use your vote at the next election wisely. These are ALL poor policy decisions that have impacted you
people getting divorced is really just their fault
@@drentic You can't say this, there are all sorts of issues and situations
Was paying 100€ weekly in Dublin for shared room in house with 14 people 2017 cant imagine how its now.
My cousin was paying €125 per week in 2022 :/
That's nothing. I had to pay €190 for a room in a house with a family in Limerick as my student accomodation. Now I commute an hour and forty minutes each morning and evening to college instead.
215-225 is more common now for weekly rent
Wow 1000-1200 for room 50-100% increase in few years insane!
Living in Ireland right now, I,m paying 525 per month sharing with 2 in the room and 6 in total in the apartment.
I grew up in Ireland and i can say from personal experience that the country has lost all hope currently. All my friends that live there either live at home or pay extortion for rent. I'm 30 years old for context. I have friends who have been in long term relationships who have resorted to moving back in with parents to save for a home. When i lived in Cork city in 2016 my rent was 325 euro for a room in a 4 bed apartment. That's 1300 euro a month for a 4 bed apartment. that same type of apartment 4 years later in 2020 was 2200 euro that's almost double in just 4 years. How can anyone justify that. I've personally been to viewings for tiny rooms in houses that were damp and ill maintained where 100s of people would be looking to rent. The condition of the houses are often terrible because the landlords don't care if you leave so they wont fix anything someone else will take your place tomorrow.
on my end I'm paying 120 euro a week to live at home with my mother was originally 100 euro from 2017-2025 so tbh i think a 20 euro rise after 8 years is fine but the point is that's 480 a month 480 wouldn't get you somewhere per week at this point never mind a month so i prob aint going anywhere any time soon
I’m Polish and I’m leaving UK.
Go back to Poland and make sure it doesn’t turn into the same situation as the rest of western countries please 🙏
And there are many "foreigners" leaving Ireland as well, or at least considering. Cause why would they stay in Ireland or the UK when they can have a better life elsewhere in their original countries? It's only then that people will realise that getting rid of foreigners didn't solve their problems but instead created new ones like a shortage of doctors (this is already starting)
What do you call UK?
@@Maxmaj0r Ireland is not the UK
@@wexfordindy Fortunately
When it comes to the housing market, did you omit on purpose to mention how the State Street, Vanguard and Black Rock affected the housing market?
Go back to the 14th minute. He didn't mention the company names but did say about investment market after 2008 crash
Yeah we should not allow foreign companies to purchase our housing .
Never again.
Yep. It’s a scam for developers and hoteliers who are also developers lol. And don’t talk about the amount of vacant properties. It’s all a scam and tbh this video doesn’t help as it doesn’t give a true picture of how this has happened.
yes
its a huge problem of foreign vulture funds absolutely gobbling up houses in new housing estates as " investment opportunities "
they need to ban vulture funds from buying property in Ireland
Visited Ireland 1999, two week driving tour - what a fantastic country, and people. One of our little group was a Shannon born & bred guy, who introduced us to Ireland thru native-born eyes. After 10 days bombing around the country & coasts, Dublin was a shock, probably least favorite of the trip. I'm so sorry for how the last 25yrs have changed it.
Hold onto that memory and dont ever come back, the state of this pathetic nation would break your heart. This is not Ireland anymore.
It's still lovely down the south coast. We stayed in a village called Sneem in Kerry last summer, which is near to where my Grandad was brought up. The last time we visited was 2011 and it has barely changed. A beautiful and quaint, quiet little place. We visited a few other villages on the Ring and they were much the same. A stark contrast to where I come from in the UK. I pray to god it never changes but I'm sure it will eventually. We finished our trip in Dublin and the contrast was immense, even felt a little unsafe at times. You expect that with a city but still. I will definitely be heading back down the south coast where the spirit of rural Ireland remains.
@@DoctorVision Ah, the Ring of Kerry! So incredibly beautiful - stopped thru on way to Dingle, another very cool place with history before recorded times. The lasting impression of our 2 weeks in Ireland is of its accessible history, literally cycling up to centuries-old churches, castles, and crumbling defense towers with fairy-ring forgotten moats. I remember a crumbling stone church, in which the learning stone (carved in Gaelic, the 800yr old equivalent to a school blackboard) still stood - in the U.S., it would have been behind glass. We were able to run our hands over the stone, thinking about how the children used to do the same while learning.
It's amazing that woman can live in the middle of a field. You can't do that either in Ireland anymore, your council will evict u for living in a mobile home on your own land even when they can't offer emergency accommodation.
lol......yeah sure
Pathetic
You can’t do that here either in Ireland but people do.
@giatasha2181 ppl who live out of view, or who have neighbours who won't report them
I left Ireland four years ago and moved to the UAE, I'm living in the US now and will stay here for the next few years. I'd like to buy my parents a decent home in my hometown, however anything decent is 400k+, bonkers.
Biggest issue I have is that, even in Dublin, there is little opportunity compared to other capital cities, and the cost of living and taxes are sky high.
The cost of living and taxes are sky high in New York as well, but YOU'RE IN NEW YORK!
Same boat different location
Do you think you are living in 1980s? There are very little countries where you can move to that is so better paid than Ireland.... or at least for a standard job.
@@roryoneill9444 You're missing the point entirely.
I'm talking about opportunity, not standard jobs. I lived in the centre of Dubai and stayed in an apartment near the Burj Khalifa for 1200euro a month, there were all kind of world-class experiences and amenities at my doorstep. In my hometown, I'd pay the same money for an apartment, with very little in terms of economic opportunity around me. I'd only imagine the cost if I were to live in Dublin city centre.
For young ambitious people like myself who want to build strong careers, Ireland doesn't offer a satisfactory level of economic opportunity in relation to the cost of living. Many of us feel this way, hence why so many of us have left or are planning on leaving.
Rory is off his rocker. Irish people can’t accept - the GDP is all made up and the country has been used as a vessel.
How did you find living in Dubai compared to Ireland?
Haven't watched full video yet, but speaking of immigration - I think it's important to remember there's also big companies like Apple, Microsoft etc constantly hiring foreigners. I was one, worked in a Finnish team for one of these big tech companies. They hire you & may pay for your flights + pay for the 1st month of accommodation & you even have a relocation agent helping you find 'permanent' accommodation. My team was constantly having new people come in almost monthly. One guy had to live in a hostel. Some people reject the work offers because they can't find a place to live in, especially in Dublin or other bigger cities. I keep saying, it's easier to find work in Ireland than in Finland, & in Finland it's easier to find a roof over your head than a job. I eventually left Ireland (Dublin) because my luck in finding a suitable, LIVABLE apartment ran out. The prices were absurd, once saw an ad for a bunk spot in a room for 3, in a house for 8 with just 1 bathroom, for 1500/mo + utilities. Some apartments would be called walk-in closets elsewhere. & the mold!! Wasn't there a study in Cork City that almost 90% of the rent apartments were unsuitable for living!? Anyways, yea. :/ It's a beautiful country, lovely people, great job opportunities & I wish to live there again, but........
Edit: Ahhh you mention this issue too :D
It's sad how things turned out... mad to think how many people cant afford a home couldn't imagine that and makes me feel more grateful for a roof over my head.
I live abroad nearly 10years when the country was a mess, hoping it would get better but its worse than ever now...sad.
Ireland has fallen badly
"Financialization" isn't the problem. This doesn't explain why more housing is not built, just why less is being built to sell. The bigger issue is that not enough housing is built AT ALL.
The majority of people in Ireland own their own house. In the 2000s during the Celtic Tiger boom, plenty of new houses were being built and the construction sector was booming. Prices kept going up but so did wages and the mortgages banks would offer, so everyone was haply. But when the crash came, people lost jobs and couldn't afford to pay their mortgage anymore, and people who didn't already have a house couldn't buy anymore, so there were a lot of extra houses with nobody to buy then and prices plummeted. Then a side effect of the prices plummeting was that for many recent buyers, the amount they still had to pay off on their mortgage was higher than what they'd get from selling the house, which was a really bad situation (widely referred to as "negative equity" at the time).
So now a large section of older, better-off voters (the ones who own the houses) and the politicians they elect are terrified of house prices dropping, and they therefore keep supply low with onerous regulations and planning laws that slow construction way down and ensure only a trickle of new places to live can be built. These voters are so plentiful that none of the top 3 biggest parties want to upset them with widespread new construction.
The people who already own property get to ride the wave back up, while people who don't fall further and further behind.
It’s not just housing! It’s the infrastructure like roads, energy and water needed too! Not to mention employment, health and educational services! Most people are not you to work to be taxed at 70pc plus to fund all this!
Ireland... huge taxes, NO public services.
No, no, no, no. It is not "Sell-tic", it's "Kell-tic". The "Sell-tics" are a basketball team from Boston in the United States.
Or a Scottish football team that thinks they're irish.
I had to leave my home in Ireland when I was 20 as there were no opportunities for me. I’m an educated working professional. It’s sad that I can’t come home for the foreseeable future.
Better off staying abroad. Ireland has died. Hell hole now. No public services. People dying on hospital trolleys in corridors. Awful
Geeetings from Turkey. The situation of housing and accommodation is a complete catastrophe in Turkey too. Corrupted and thief government representatives and members buy houses lots of houses as bribery from big construction companies. Also, the refugee policy of the government have been increasing accommodation problem of Turkey. People are experiencing a nightmare nowadays.
atleast you guys all look the same
@@drenticlmfaooooo😂😂😂
When you keep voting the same people in every election then you get this ,......
yep - a lot of these young emigrating their parents and grand parents are the clowns that are still voting for FG?FF
Most people didn't vote them in. Fianna Fáil recieved only 13% of the electorates support. Most people who showed up to vote voted for opposition parties. The system is rigged so that the establishment can stsy in power with only a minority of support. This happens because opposition is too divided to compete.
Not hard to see why my ancestors left Ireland and came to live in the US. They did it to lead a better life and in the process, did me a GIANT favor.
Thanks for making this. Very true. One of the weirdest things is that all my educated and well-to-do friends do not even acknowledge this. It's wild. "Muhammad" being the number one baby name in Galway means nothing to them. They're so focused on historical resentment that they're blind to the fact that they're currently being replaced. The cognitive dissonance is mind-boggling.
That what you call being brainwashed into a woke culture
In the past we had to worry about the ignorance of the working class. Now we need to worry about the ignorance of people with degrees. They are among the most hopelessly brainwashed you will come across. And most of them will be in a position where it's going to be very bad for them in their professional lives to recognise the truth. In such a scenario where it is better for a person to remain ignorant, you can bet your bottom dollar that is how they will stay
Great comment. Have also noticed the same.
I couldnt believe it but it's true 😢
As the video mentioned, you could buy a home for 260,000 Euro in Dublin 10 years ago and you can stil buy one for less over in Belfast. This is why an united Ireland isn't very appetizing over in NI.
Thankfully keir starmer is making it more appealing
Yes but 2015, Ireland was in the recession era. We need to built more but this video is pointless. His just pointing out common sense issues.
Not appetising for a lot of reasons even from the ROI side
NI home owners would be thrilled at the prospect of getting €200k+ richer doing nothing, and most politicians are property owners, so that's unlikely to be the impediment to reunification that you think it is. Almost every effort to make housing affordable will be fought by people who have houses already and see their net worth dropping as a result (And they are statistically a lot more likely to vote) and the large companies who outbid the people who wanted to live there to get huge amounts of property as an investment to turn into rental income (And gain on the value of the property), in some cases to the same people they outbid to buy it.
@peglor I'm a NI home owner and I don't want the place I love to become unaffordable to people and drive them out. Thanks.
I got my house, I want to live in it, not flip it.
Same in South Korea. Singapore. Hong Kong. Japan. These countries have very little immigration and is still happening to them.
Common link in all these videos trashing every country is where are people going to leave to? There’s a video similar to this with similar problems in all wealthy western countries, Australia, Canada, UK…if life really is “impossible” everywhere, where are you going to escape to? You’re just swapping one set of problems for another.
Yeah, but this video is full of inaccuracies and misrepresentations. It’s a cheap imitation of the excellent Caspian Report channel.
Poland. 😂 Multiculturalism in Poland is banned though.
Well yes that's why you shouldn't destroy your countries from the inside out in the first place. But you wanted feminism and diversity so there you go, now you'll have nowhere left
lets bring all these ex colonies under our control again and go there to rebuild them, and show all the refugees from there that it doesnt matter where you live, but how you live.
Make absolutely no mistake almost every SINGLE commenter that bemoans how the brown people have ''destroyed'' their western country would never, in a million years, every live in any eastern European shithole that they praise so much for their domestic 'racial purity' agenda. It's all fluff, all pretend, LARPers.
I've no doubt even the guy who runs this channel is just another guy who lives in one of the countries he shits on about, a total right wing grifter.
as an immigrant in Ireland (legally), I became so emotional watching this. I knew that housing is a big problem here, the job market as well, but I had no idea it's that bad, and I really feel so sorry for the irish people being hit that hard by their own country..
There is another interesting problem in Ireland which helps fuel the crisis on a more "local" level but with nationwide repercussions. Because of the tech jobs that exist in this country, which are significantly higher paid than most "normal" jobs for domestic companies, you have a small amount of buyers with much bigger salaries than the average person. The average person will find it challenging to earn more than €50k per year but some of the tech jobs pay €120k per year and more. But there are probably more people working those tech jobs making 6 figures then there are people earning between €50-100k a year (just a guess), so there is a huge gap rather than a more normative tiered wage structure that you have in most economies. Those people are easily able to afford homes, especially outside Dublin, resulting in bidding wars at the real estate agent level that further drives prices up. Plus if you have a couple where one spouse earns €120k from a tech job and the other earns €50k a year working somewhere else, that's a combined salary of €170k and a purchasing power in the mortgage market of €680k if they're first time buyers. So even though the majority of people are priced out of the market, there are just barely enough high earners to keep the bidding going and push the prices up and up. Open to feedback and correction here of course.
Most of those high payed jobs in Multinationals are held by foreigners. Depending on where you are the problem is different for example Donegal has a serious problem with Rich Dubs and remote workers moving up there.
@ completely agree Matthew, I have seen the same exact thing. At least Donegal is still somewhat reasonable in terms of house prices but still probably overpriced objectively speaking when you take into account the job scarcity up there.
@@matthewbarry376 That is a lie, most Multinationals jobs are held by Irish people and I would know as a contractor in several Multinational companies and the vast majority of the Staff are Irish, at all levels. How many multinationals have set up in Donegal & why hasn't Doherty not got more MNE sector jobs in Donegal?
That is wrong, most of the MNE sector in Ireland are Pharmaceutical Jobs not IT and this will only effects commuter towns in counties around Dublin & the towns around Cork City... this is why in a United Ireland, there will be a massive jump in property prices between Dublin and Belfast (also Belfast will see a massive FDI push as the IDA gets to work) in Co Down and Co Armagh, this along with the North's GDP will increase Ireland's overall GDP figures massively.
If MNEs plant sets up in a Town, it is great for the local economy as it adds to the overall employment range in the region. I will give an example using two towns close to each other Dungarvan and Youghal, both are seaside towns with beautiful beaches but Dungarvan has a Pharmaceutical Plant and Youghal doesn't, the difference in the local economy is massive as Dungarvan has three sectors (two are seasonal and one is all year round), Tourism, Agricultural and Manufacturing & Dungarvan is very vibrant but Youghal only has only 2 seasonal industries Tourism and Agricultural & is economically dead. There is, of course, the multiplier effect, which means that the catering & retail sectors have a steady local customer base all year round, which allows for easy ramp up during the Summer months, in Dungarvan and in Youghal the Tourism sector can cost a lot of investment at the start of the season & agriculture is very niche & specialised working environment in both towns.
The main problems that were not mentioned in the video with the Housing Crisis in Ireland is that from 2016 to 2019, most of the political bandwidth and resources were used to insolate the Irish Economy & the Peace Process in the North from the damage of Brexit, this included over 400 meetings in every European Capital to protect the border and to construct Port Facilities and infrastructural projects to bye-pass the land-bridge, also there was a hiatus in the construction of 2 years during the pandemic leaving a shortfall of 60,000 houses, this shortfall will take at least 5 years to work its way through the system, which Ireland is in the middle of. The Irish Central Bank also mention the Labour Shortage in the Construction Sector, the reluctance of the Banking sector to give mortgages without very strict guidelines in place and planning permission issues.
There’s absolutely no way that there are more people making €100,000+ a year than there are people making €50,000 to €100,000 a year. No chance whatsoever
One issue that was not addressed is that there are over 100,000 vacant properties across Ireland. The issue only has a little to do with less housing building being built, and absolutely nothing to do with immigration. The issue is the housing market. Landlords and companies have realised they can just buy up loads of housing and increase rates because "the housing market" doesn't work
Living in a mobile home in the middle of a field sounds blissful to me
It's not usually legal though, you need planning permission to do this, and I believe you can only get 6 months for a mobile home before it has to be moved. Usually they don't give the planning permission. The same issue with cabins and modular homes. In addition, there are no mortgages to be got for any form of cheaper housing.
Why don't you try that, then? I don't think you would like it in the long run
@ what’s not to like?
@@piee683it has no electricity or plumbing. So you'd be miserably cold, wearing dirty clothes and sleeping in stinky bed sheets, and shitting in a latrine bucket. You'd likely be dead 20 years under life expectancy
Not in an Irish field lol, you’ll be living in a muddy bog because of the constant rain
This is by design. If you wonder what your government officials talk about and plan at the Davos and WEF meetings....this is it.
Agree 100%
I know a lot of people who live in Ireland. Strangely I don't ever hear any of them saying that living there is impossible.
When you have M2 money supply increasing annually by 6.9%, driven by debt creation against assets such as housing, and wage growth targetted by govenment to mirror the inflation rate of 2%, then invariably housing will become unaffordable.
Housing will inflate at 6.9% annually (using 'Rule of 72'), so housing will double in price every 10 years approximately.
Wages will inflate at 2% annually, so wages will double every 36 years.
At this rate house prices will aways outpace wages, as they have done over the last 5 decades globally.
The end result will be that young people will no longer be able to establish their own families.
Councils are forced by law to house the migrants ahead of their own citizens, who are also in need of support.
This will not end well, as the country's educated and trained cohort of the next generation will get smaller and smaller through demographic decline, and as more and more resources are diverted unsustainably to poorly educated and untrained migrants.
Somewhere down the line ever increasing taxation will reach a limiting point, which will result in general decline of the country.
The only problem is that this is happening to all counrtries around the world, where the national resources are being used by migrants who should not, in normal circumstances, be elligible to them.
BINGO !
100% right ✅️ , we are in big big trouble the Irish people never voted for this.
Its the same everywhere in the world now, huge changes in the past 10 years. What is going on globally? I have never taken conspiracy theories seriously, but now I am starting to think there must be something that is driving this situation.
Western civilization is being changed through immigration. Poverty is on the rise. Soros said, "You will own nothing and be happy." Is this also the WEF and the EU behind this movement?
Yes, it’s the WEF puppets in every western government
and on top of that we got a huge load of non-european students coming in which makes it even alot worse
You see, there's the rub. Ireland experiences an influx of refugess, and the goverment moves heaven and earth to house them. What about its own people?
Have you considered that Ireland has signed international agreements and are bound by that?
@@peterh1353 So WHY did they sign such agreements?
@@peterh1353IREXIT
Emigrating to Australia , just more misery in moist heat instead of damp temperate .
Didn’t look like that to me in a video set by a friend last week. Hundreds of people waiting for Santa to arrive . Sunshine and blue skies and not a trail I mean, cloud in the sky.
@@taproot381You are both talking about a entire continent, how can you generalise things like that
where in australia is better?
@@taproot381bloody hot. Floods. Droughts. Bushfire. Housing crisis. Cost of living. Corrupt politics.
Watch out for the spiders! 😱
Affordable house target for government is 350,000, the average wage for a person in ireland is 35,000-30,000 take home pay is around 28,000-26,000 after tax,
It’s not just Ireland.. it’s the same across Europe
All by design.....
And yet the Irish people continue to vote in the same political parties FF and FG now known as FFG , the same parties who caused all of this as the have run the country since we got our independence in 1922
That is democracy friend....we vote foe who want! Best to have a coalition than Sinn Fein.
yea thats why i have no confidence going forward
Ireland has been voting FF or FG one or the other or both since the 1930s
on March 2 1932 Finna Fail entered Government beginning the cycle of FF and FG 92 years later and it's still continuing in reality FF and FG are the same party pretending to be different to give an illusion of choice
Same everywhere. It’s like we were all playing musical chairs and the music just stopped. Whoever had a house keeps it, who ever didn’t won’t ever get one.
So everything is going according plan .
Servers you right for voting the government back in again.
Doesn't help that the current government gave immigrants the right to vote because they knew they might be kicked out of the country if an alternative government got in.
Irish politicians are some of the sleaziest snakes on the planet.
Perhaps it was rigged? ''Democracy'' is an illusion
That’s the thing. If things were as this report is suggesting, the two main parties of the previous government wouldn’t have been re-elected, would they?
That's what happens when young people are forced to leave to live a better life or highly encouraged to study abroad without any option to vote while abroad, even if you're living across the NI border.
@@agaafearignore the record low voter turnout and high numbers of young people emigrating for study, work and work-life balance
The planning system is big problem, also the local authorities need to improve public infrastructure for new homes.
The amount if refugees and migrants that moved here in a 4 year period has made it far worse. In 4 years about 500,000 people moved here, equal to about 10% of the population. The government denied that it has impacted the housing crisis doesn't help things. The government keep calling everyone a racist if they say the amount of immigrants moving here each year is contributing to the housing issues.
Only skills workers earning over €40000 should be aloud to move here until the supply of housing improves.
We have similar problems in the UK too. We had 1 million move here in 2023. The immigration problem is two fold. Businesses need workers, but workers of the wrong skill level are here. Companies refusing to train people. You import people. They communicate its good here. More come. and the cycle repeats. Companies should be subject to higher taxes on workers who are on work visas Vs. those who were trained in their home country.
The only people who should be moving here is the tens of thousands who have left these shores since 2008
right as I thought I had found a country to escape to from the US 😞 i hope they manage to figure things out, for their own sakes
Notice that Ireland and other countries that are experiencing the same problem had only one ingredient added in the population?
People don't want to say it due to the fear of being labeled as "racist", but not talking about the cause of the problem won't fix anything.
It isn't just one ingredient. It's multi layered with causes. Greed, free market capitalism, a shoneen government that never decolonised, the EU, the WEF, globalism, neocolonialism, mass migration, private ownership of indigenous land, diversity politics, apathy toward indigenous land and culture, etc
@@RuaidhríRyan are you saying that the irish colonized?
@@drentic That's not a simple question or answer. We'd have to define exactly what we mean. Irish people have partaken in colonising. That's indisputable. There have been Irishmen who sided with colonisers at least ever since Dermot McMurrough sold out Leinster to the Normans. Irishmen "took the king's shilling" in the following centuries and joined up with British military snd police. Irishmen who served with the British military were awarded land in Africa. Irishmen who survived their indenture in the Americas sometimes became plantation owners with slaves. Even the Irish who went over find a new life in America in the 1800s were unwittingly partaking in colonisation. They settled stolen land and helped build a railway that enabled the US expansion farther west into indigenous land in an imperialist campaign called "Manifest Destiny". We cannot claim that Irish are entirely exempt from colonial activities. But it should be remembered that the same can be said for most peoples. Africans engaged in slave trading. Indigenous Americans aided the federal government and kept slaves. Every nation ever colonised by Britain had members who joined the British military. Even today we cannot escape the fact that we contribute to colonisation simply by being consumers in a capitalist neocolonial market. The very phones we use require cobalt that's mined from the Congo against the wishes of the native people who live in that region. But what's also important to remember is that there is a hierarchy in colonisation and the Irish never sat at the top of it. Like the African Americans and the Indigenous Americans, the indigenous Irish were more often the oppressed rather than the oppressor. But I do view the modern Irish government as colonisers along with any industrialists and capitalists who support them. The Irish government sold mining rights to a private company to blow up the Hill of Allen, one of Ireland's most important and sacred sites. They do not give a tupenny fuck about the land or the indigenous people if either of those things gets in the way of profit. They secured independence from Westminster but they never decolonised the country. They retained the colonial machinery of government and they've only gotten worse today. Micheál Martin stood up in the Dáil, as leader of the country, and proudly voiced Ireland's submission to Brussels, stating "we want nothing to do with the outdated idea of sovereignty". 20% of Ireland's economy is reliant on foreign companies and landowners. So the Irish government overlook indigenous needs in order to please those companies and the globalist market. In my opinion that constitutes neocolonialism, when a corrupt government sells out it's own land and people to foreign powers, whether they be political or economic powers. Ireland is still colonised. When indigenous people cannot build a shelter on the indigenous land that's their birthright because that land is privately owned by foreigners, when a native village is told they have no say in the settlement of foreign migrants in their village, to such an extent that those natives become outnumbered by those foreigners, these are examples of colonisation in my view. Ireland is still colonised in my opinion. Only it's not colonised by the British. It's colonised by it's own government who effectively became Anglicised shoneen oligarchs prostituting the land to foreign oligarchs. Fair play if you actually read all this. If I could have answered with a simple yes or no I would have. But it isn't a simple subject.
My sister recently send me a job advert for Ireland, hoping I'd see it as a means to move back. EUR45-50k/year. She said that's brilliant money. In Canada I earn CAD$120k - however because Canada is so expensive that's still not enough to afford even a 2-bed condo....I feel like wages in Ireland are not good
That video would be perfect but one thing is missing - MICA and pyrite/sulfide crisis that make properties crumble with force people to break them and rebuild. Banks will not give mortgages to buy house affected by these things. Estimates for our region is that up to 30% properties are affected. That make a chunk of houses from second hand a impossible to buy as sellers can only offer them for cash. And you can expect who have 150k in cash to buy them and rent or live in....
Would've liked a deeper look into "what it takes" to build houses in Ireland and not just "there's too much demand and not enough skilled workers to build them"
Yes, this explanation seems entirely insufficient. If the whole problem were a lack of skilled workers who can build new homes, the same thing would happen as when Google and Apple established themselves in Ireland: the right kind of people would flock to the country, drawn by the opportunity. Whenever there is a huge demand and little supply, the market tends to adjust, as long as the government doesn't get in the way with regulations.
Yup. Wealth distribution plays a part. The rich get richer.
@philipfisher8853 what are tax brackets like in Ireland?
@@chronosx7 20% up to €44,000 and 40% over that. Standard Tax credits will allow you get €200 per week without paying income tax..
The main problems that were not mentioned in the video with the Housing Crisis in Ireland is that from 2016 to 2019, most of the political bandwidth and resources were used to insolate the Irish Economy & the Peace Process in the North from the damage of Brexit, this included over 400 meetings in every European Capital to protect the border and to construct Port Facilities and infrastructural projects to bye-pass the land-bridge, this cost Ireland a small fortune. There was a hiatus in the construction of 2 years during the pandemic leaving a shortfall of 60,000 houses, this shortfall will take at least 5 years to work its way through the system, which Ireland is in the middle of.
The Irish Central Bank also mention the Labour Shortage in the Construction Sector, the reluctance of the Banking sector to give mortgages without very strict guidelines in place due to regulations brought in after the Financial Crisis of '10 and planning permission issues. I would also say that modern youth don't want live with their parents to save for five years to get a deposit for a mortgage unlike every generation before them..
All the enlightened were voted back in for at least 5 more enriching years.
The electorate not very sharp
It is pure madness.
This assesment is way off, we're getting ripped off on property tax and universal charges as a result of bailing out irresponsible bankers in 2009, now think about the fact that alot of people have already paid a stamp duty(property tax) upon purchase of a property,
In all towns across the country,theres a Lot of derelect and abandoned houses,an eyesore in most towns
But a lot of the people that own them are in retirement homes and are using the property as part of their health cover..
i live in Monaghan town near where i live is a Ghost Estate that had been abandoned for 15 years 2009-2024 its finally been torn down and will be built into social housing
there's also more plans for housing on the other end of the town there's housing under construction overlooking the bus station and even more council sign plans for housing so building work is underway here oh i almost forgot we have an Aldi under construction that will take our town from 4 Supermarkets to 5 town population at this point is roughly a little over 8,000 last census in 2022 we had just under 7,900 people so i think it's far to say we've cracked 8,000 at this moment speaking
we have some homeless people but our housing issue is more county council housing waiting lists
@@kurtpunchesthings2411 A lot of Ghost Estates were stuck in the court system as ownership was a legal quagmire, where some parties owned unfinished houses and others parties mortgages on the unfinished houses & other owned business loans of the construction companies.
Well hey, at least the multi-billion dollar companies get to set up their HQs here with low corporate tax! Leave them alone, they are people too!
This place is a fucking dump.
Reimu pfp spotted, and real shit
My neighbours daughter lives in Cork for work she house shares with a few other friends (to help with rent which is 4x what it is here in the north) her landlord told them due to circumstances they had to put the property up for sale. They did so at a slightly lower than average price. And got in one day 10,000 applicants
Same thing going on over here in Canada....
The average Rent for a house per month where I live is 2800 Euro's per month. (which nobody can afford)
Average salary is 44K per year. (44K is probably a good salary considering retail/shop assistant/mcdonalds might be half that)
You have income tax 20% to 40%
PRSI Pay related social insurance tax 4.1%
USC Universal social charge tax 2-4%
If you own a home you have property tax.
VAT Value Added tax of 23% on everything you buy.
Ultility bills have doubled
The cost of buying food has gone through the roof.
Sugar Tax on drinks, A deposit Tax now on plastic or metal containers.
Houses being built are getting smaller and more expensive and no single income person/family can afford to purchase one.
They are being built with tiny driveways with no parking consideration for people that rent, I've seen semi-detached houses in suburban neighbourhoods with 5 cars and about 8 people living in a 4 bedroom house which is nuts.
People growing into adulthood never being able to afford to rent or buy their own property doomed to share with housemates/friends/strangers
On top of that every workplace has a focus on diversity......the native population are getting displaced.
When you look around and feel like an minority in your workplace and neighbourhood its a strange feeling.
Ireland has died. In another 10 years it won't be Irish at all.
A deposit “tax”"? Just return your cans/bottles and you get your deposit back, that’s not a tax.
@@Thewizard1978how many of these cans and bottles will never be returned? Who keeps this money? This is the new starbucks gift card
I'd like to react to the diversity part. They don’t focus on diversity for the sake of it; they do it because they pay foreigners less. I came to Ireland in 2016 from Slovakia. In 2019 I had to accept a starting salary of 24K as an architectural designer with a master degree in order to get back into my profession after spending a couple of years in hospitality, where I was earning much more! After 5 years, I managed to work my way up to 35K as a lead architectural designer, when my new manager (who is Irish and has no clue about the sector) told me not to get my hopes up because there wouldn’t be any yearly raises after this. I got up and left. I now work for myself and have a good income, I still live in Ireland.
The problem lies with the employers. If they paid fair wages, there would be Irish people applying and working there. But if they are content with Brazilians, Indians etc. (who are all great, hardworking people too!) working for less money... Don’t blame the foreigners for this.
Just have a look around on indeed.ie. Some offer 13eur/h for an architectural technologist and easily 14eur/h for a waiter (plus tips!!). It's outrageous.
@@daviflach7966 true
Why does objectivity always falter when talking about the causes of a housing crisis?
He says: "... they shifted to more lucrative private market and rental properties for which they were given subsidies." That's the only mention of subsidies, a massive government intervention with the market, even if well meant.
The narrative is: "Never mind the finger in the scales; why aren't there more fingers?"
Building houses is great; some government control is necessary, but subsidies are a great part of the mix, pushing prices up.
The problem in Ireland and elsewhere is never resolved because part of the solution is to accept that regular people will pay for years of vote-winning policies that bloated and will continue to bloat the market. The longer it takes, the bigger the pain.
Edit: I wrote this around the 15-minute mark. Then, at 15:14, they did come around to this point. 😅 Well done.
No council housing priority, original residents with no rights... a time bomb.
Solution: only persons can buy a home and if you already have a house you can't buy another.
What if you have bad credit or don't want to buy ? Where are you going to live. Thank God for landlords, I say.
@@stephennelmes4557 That's a new one.
That's an interesting solution that would clearly fly nowhere in a neoliberalist economy. How dare you suggest taking away our right to earn vast sums of money money by doing nothing! And I could go on. Land banking is the key to neoliberalism it seems, and therefore the ability to artificially increase land prices. I like your solution by the way, then people would stop bitching about immigrants (clearly the root of all evil is immigration, not the system as it stands).
Fine on paper , but there's ways round that , I'm quite sure .
Or we stop bringing in hundreds of thousands of immigrants every year?