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LAST UPDATE | 7 Jul 2021
THE DÁIL HAS passed a controversial amendment that allows funds to side-step 10% stamp duty if they lease back houses to the State for social housing.
Last month, the government moved to introduce a new 10% rate of stamp duty on bulk purchases of 10 homes or more last month.
However, the amendment that came before the Dáil this evening will exempt institutional investors from the charge under these circumstances.
Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Broin TD was among TDs to criticise the length of the debate, which was given an hour in the Dáil schedule, accusing the government of “not playing by the rules”.
Sinn Féin withdrew a pairing arrangement whereby opposition TDs agree to abstain in a vote if a government TD is forced to be absent from the Dáil due to an unavoidable appointment.
However, the amendment was passed with 74 votes in favour to 59 against.
Speaking during the debate, Minister for Finance Paschal Donohue, who tabled the amendment, said that funds have a role to play in the “provision of rental accommodation which otherwise I believe in many cases would not be built”.
“If we acknowledge we need to build homes at scale, at speed, if we acknowledge that there is a burning urgency and need for the supply of new homes to be quickly accelerated, if we look at what the government is already do with the money that we’re making available… is there a role for the private sector in this?” Donohue said.
The new stamp duty change is aimed at tackling so-called cuckoo funds buying up housing developments from first-time buyers but opposition members have said the new amendment signifies “the white flag of surrender” to cuckoo funds.
Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien has denied these accusations and has accused the opposition of “scaremongering”.
He has argued that the amendment is time-limited and is being brought forward to protect the delivery of social housing for almost 2,500 families by the end of the year.
“In relation to the amendment that we have laid down later this evening, it is to ensure that around 2,400 leases that are currently going through the system, which will be used for social housing and social housing only, would be exempted from the 10% because there would be a risk that some of these would not go ahead,” O’Brien told RTÉ’s Drivetime programme earlier today.
Also speaking on Drivetime, Ó Broin said that “at least 1,000″ of the 2,400 homes referred to already have leases signed, so they are not at risk as the minister claims.
He added that the State should buy the remainder of the homes instead of leasing them from the investors as this would represent better value for money in the long-term.
“If the buyer knows that they’re going to get an exceptionally high rent guaranteed and index-linked over 25 years, that pushes up the cost of that property and then of course the taxpayer has to pay a very hefty bill,” he said.
Stamp duty
The new higher rate of stamp duty is the main component of the government’s response to the ongoing controversy surrounding so-called ‘cuckoo funds’ like the one that bought up the majority of the Mullen Park housing estate in Maynooth earlier this year.
In the Dáil earlier today, Taoiseach Micheal Martin was accused of helping so-called cuckoo funds to evade measures aimed at limiting their role in the housing market with this “sneaky amendment”.
Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald said the Taoiseach has “not reigned in funds” but is actually facilitating their actions and incentivising them to buy up homes, forcing regular buyers to compete with large investment funds.
“Don’t pretend this helps people stuck in the rental market,” she said.
“This is about big bucks and funds muscling in with the help of this government, into the property market,” she said.
“Same old Fianna Fáil, same old Fine Gael,” she told the Taoiseach, accusing Leo Varadkar and the Taoiseach of living in a “cosy little bubble”.
The Taoiseach moved to defend the government’s plans, stating they “can’t turn off the tap” immediately.
Martin said direct build is the focus on the government, but that the pandemic has slowed their progress.
“We need more houses and right now we don’t have enough supply,” he admitted.
Yesterday, when questioned over the amendment, Martin said the government’s response was being “distorted” with the Opposition focusing in on one single amendment, “as if that constitutes the entirety of Government policy, which of course it does not”.
- With reporting by Rónán Duffy, Lauren Boland and the Press Association
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One of the worst governments in the European Union.
@Aleks Ander: They definitely don’t represent the people of Ireland. That is a stone cold fact.
@Aleks Ander: not saying I agree with this policy but I assume it’s down to the fact they are so far behind in building houses and with costs going up, building social homes will be even more expensive… It should mean more houses for social in the long run but problem is money leaving Ireland and will the council be responsible for upkeep etc….
@David Corrigan: unfortunately they were voted in at the last election though.
@Aleks Ander: THE worst by far…..
@Aleks Ander: as bad as the assembly in the North
@Aleks Ander: I agree . Totally dishonest with the Irish people. They are actually spending hundreds of millions on PR firms to produce lies , spin and manage us as they go. Something has to give because they are destroying our country and everyday lives . They don’t give a toss and most of them are totally incompetent. I do not know the answer and I am very cynical of political parties and politicians.
@Aleks Ander: Ireland in a battle for a #1 most incom.petent gov with Romania and Moldova
@David Corrigan: but they will at the next GE when all the seats and sums are added up again. Shame on the sheep voters
@Patrick O Connell: irrelevant. Different country at the moment.
@Aleks Ander: oh my God. These guys are unreal. Protecting their own interests. They gotta go.
@Aleks Ander: That govt wld not have leg but for the support of DAIL majority of TD and TD it them u need to lok at and yes the gove is bad but wld not survive and policies but for DAUL SUPPORT YORU TDS See how the amendment goes . U cant hold govt ( exec arm of stae to account electedd by DAIL only TD that make the daul. They are the only one we can hold to account
@Aleks Ander: yes its bad behodent to the eu but that govt (executive arm of state ) wld not survive without the support of DAUL ( Majority of TD ) see how ammendemnt goes .
@Aleks Ander: They’ve shown their true colours now & given the too fingers to the people of Ireland! Really sickening.
@Aleks Ander: I hope people remember this at the next election, ff/fg need to be wiped off the map. I always thought nothing could be worse than FF or FG in power, but the two together? Good grief
@David Finn: Not really, they had to form a coalition to get into power, nobody voted for the farce that’s in power now
@Realist: The problem will be young people leaving Ireland, already i am seeing this, Irish , Brazilian, Italians, Spanish etc all working in the IT trade. All looking to leave, companies offering working from home now and in any European country should be a worry for any landlord… There will be nobody left to rent…best fo luck to the landlords.
@Aleks Ander: agreed to a large extent. Playing to the social media outcry and then sneaking in exemptions on the sly. They may as well not have introduced a sham 10% stamp duty because now it doesn’t apply to the very purchases that it should apply to!
@David Corrigan: they blatantly lied before the election and done complete opposite of the will of the people…
@Bennett blaster: Apart from over half the population.
@Realist:
You describe it so accurately in a nutshell!
Chickens coming home to roost,given these necessary mad panic Govt decisions to deliver some more homes at any cost, all caused by past Government’s brutal failures in housing policies.
Please don’t blame this Govt alone as this problem has been brewing for over 30 years, given damaging ST boom bust cycles in the sector during that period which has led to current chaos, with no one in the Establishment seemingly with foresight or gumption to call a halt, &take the long-term view through proper planning, looking hard at demographics coming down the tracks.
A failure of Statehood has gotten us here, make no mistake! And an all-party Govt is what’s required now to get us out of the mess, by formulating a 20-yr plan like with China!
So we the tax payer will pay the full value of the houses back In a 20 year lease to an investments fund that bought up the houses preventing tax payers from owning them in the first place. You couldnt make it up. And they are encouraged to do so by getting tax write offs that small landlords don’t get and they now side step the 10% levy.
@Derek Moran: Another reason not to be a small landlord.
@Jason Walsh: are there any reasons left?
@Derek Moran: you definitely don’t need to make it up anyway
@Derek Moran: Exactly. Why can’t the government just do what they did years ago, ie just directly pay builders to build houses on public land? The government would then have full control over allocation the amount of houses for rent, cost rental and for sale at cost price.
The FG faithful of Dublin Bay South will still vote FG even with this confirmation that the future of home ownership for everyone,not just those with a wish to buy a city centre apartment,has been abandoned to foreign vulture funds.
@Peter McGlynn: I would wish these funds got their arse burnt but that would also require punishing taxpayers again.
A crash is all that will see these funds think twice.
@Peter McGlynn: FG candidates in DBS did not get to the quota in the last election, not sure why people think this is a FG constituency.
Wexford is far more a FG constituency , as there is always one , sometimes two FG TDs
They are handing Sinn Fein the next election with this carry on. They are clearly not interested in solving the housing crisis, and instead are content to tinker around the edges to give the appearance of being concerned about it, while really preserving the status quo.
@Eric: Good. I’ll be voting for them again.
@Robert Clifford: you are obviously ok with this country being run down and destroyed by corrupt politicians so
@Kevin Finnegan: things are bad when people vote for FF FG over the shinners. We have the worst opposition party in the history of the state
@Patrick O Connell: How did you come to such a wild and completely untrue statement Padraig?
@David Corrigan: The first time in over a century that FF & FG had to form a coalition to get into power because neither of them had enough seats to form a coalition with a junior party. Things are certainly looking bad alright.
@Kevin Finnegan: Well that’s the way it’s been for years. How more run down can it get?? It’s has already been destroyed by corrupt in-ept politicians. At this stage hopefully with something, anything, new the only way could be up.
@Robert Clifford: clown
@Robert Clifford: you looking for attention again cliffy the jiff.
@Kevin Finnegan: No. I would say he is just against an amateur dodgy sf party falling into a position of power with all the dangers that would bring!!
@Eric: They are not interested in solving anything Eric only giving everything away.
@Chris Gaffney: Those dangers you describe have manifested already under the current government of Fine Gael/Fianna Fail/Green Party. Generations of citizens from newborns to 25/30 year olds will never be in a position to own their own home. That’s what FF/FG together as one have done to us. It’s Grotesque, Unbelievable, Bizarre & Unprecedented. Two fingers to our beloved nation, a giant leap backwards.
@Robert Clifford: an obvious troII
@Chris Gaffney: They wouldn’t sell off the family silver to a bunch of parasites. I’ve never voted Sinn Fein but they’re starting to look pretty good.
@Eric: won’t matter!!!! SF won’t run enough candidates to form a gov. That don’t want the responsibility.
@Eric: They know the next election is goosed, they are spending like mad now and will leave the mess for the shinners to deal with.
What is it going to take for this country to wake up and realise how much is being robbed from under our noses ? Where are the young people most affected by this housing crisis ? They should be organising protests that put the water movement to shame but just a deafening silence. Silence is consent and nothing will change until FFG are shown the door.
@Declan Doherty: The young will leave, I myself don’t leave any money in this country, currently purchasing land abroad for 10k and will build my own home and hopefully open a business
@Sean Walsh: Well I really hope it works out for you because there’s no incentive whatsoever to keep young people here.
@Sean Walsh: 2 kids in college, neither have any intention of staying in Ireland, they see it as a country set up to make young people pay as much as possible to pay for those who came before them. As soon as they finish up we like you are out of here, retiring early abroad. And before anybody starts on about their education being paid for by them, we have paid over 50k in stamp duty and property charges alone, never mind all other taxes. My father in law has never paid property tax, never paid more than a couple of grand stamp duty, never paid any college fees despite having three kids educated to that level. Why would anybody stay here to pay for past and present mistakes, hugely overpaid senior public servants, TDs,etc.massive property prices, huge insurance costs, the list goes on and on. Why would any young person stay here.
@Rex Tilson: Well said
@Sean Walsh: Where did you buy this land? Asking for friend…
@Sean Walsh: Will you leave your Irish passport behind as well.
@Teresa Ryan: why would he do that?
He was losing it today with mary lou who challenged him on housing and unaffordable homes
@frank_66: He’s been losing it since he took office. Completely out of touch with the young of the country.
@Robert Clifford: Completely out of touch full stop
The worst government we ever had.
@Sean: I’m not defending them at all, but I think that is said about every government who are in power.
@WiseUp: then it means Ireland is only getting worse. Something should be done
@WiseUp: Not so, Bertie Ahern and his government was so popular at one stage in the noughties that he almost pulled off an overall all majority for FF in one election, and Jack Lynch was also very popular in the 70′s.
The reason why this lot are so bad and out of touch is, the problem has been identified by them and the solution has also been identified, but they continue to fudge and do whats required, for fear of confronting the narrow vested interests.
@WiseUp: pretty much. I still feel like Bellenda with iphone Joan and AK47 during the Irish Water years was the most obnoxious government ever, or Brian Cowens was the worst government ever for the future. At least those 2 in recent Irish history come to mind. This one is just more of the same shower of muck, so consider it the least progressive one.
@Sean: perhaps a touch of hyperbole? Maybe your 18 and don’t recall the past 60 years. But they are certainly a pretty incompetent bunch.
@Sean: It’s the same government we’ve ever had, it’s the neverending reign of FF & FG. The only thing that changes is the public becoming more and more aware of who they’re actually serving.
Free houses for foreign landlords, who re-rent it back to Irish citizens — at a months wage for a months rent.
Surrendering our housing stock.
Who’d have thought that Mehole and FF would be playing footsie with property sharks. Sounds familiar! Look where it got us the last time!!!
Micheal Martin has gone completely Cuckoo !
“Same old Fianna Fáil, same old Fine Gael,” Absolutely spot on
Id be more surprised if he didnt tbh ! Always look out for big businesses never tour average person! And yet people keep citing for these people!!
Looks like emigration is becoming more and more necessary to set up any kind of stable life.
It’s hard to be able to really settle down if you can’t as much as hang a picture on a wall and face the possibility of being booted out of rented accommodation at the drop of a hat.
oh how did that get in there without anyone noticing how careless
How long will it take them to blame sf?
@Damien Leahy: Paschal is already on that task. One of his assistants who we pay over 100K per year to, is on the job. It would suit them better if they got those assistants to work on solutions.
@Damien Leahy: Martin in Question Time in response to Mary-Lou’s questions today pretty much did blame SF.
@Alan Wright: their game is old, They can do what they want as long as they have a dig at sf. Hopefully the Irish will wake up before the next election
@Alan Wright: Yes he did – as do FG, they complain that SF as main opposition party shouldn’t be opposed to government policy. You feel they almost wish they were in opposition themselves.
They may scrape through in DBS as its a blue shirt breeding ground, but they shouldn’t get complacent if they pull it off, as the electorate are waiting for them in the long grass.
Yesterdays poll figures on the Journal, probably represents a far more accurate picture of where Irish voters feelings are at right now!
Is anyone surprised?
I read a Tweet the other day by UnHerd editor Aris Roussinos that I think is worth sharing. While you may not agree with everything I think it is accurately scathing:
Modern Ireland is the gonzo nightmare image of what Blair-Cameron UK would have become without our sudden, unfinished, still-contested course correction: a pure colony of global capital, housing crisis worse than London, unchallenged neoliberal political consensus.
Their scolds are a thousand times worse than ours, their media more fawning to power, their political culture more technocratic and lifeless: everything wrong with the UK, Ireland has somehow managed to magnify to gigantic proportions all on its own.
@Cillian Lynch: Brexiters still thinking Brexit was some sort of blow to “global capital”. Poor things, imagine beeing st*pid enough to think Bojo is fighting the fight of the ordinary guy.
We’d probably need a semi-state modular home building company at this stage. There probably would have been a housing crisis without covid. But now it must be a housing apocalypse.
Yes the takers looked after again.
I think we’ve reached the stage where we need to crowdfund an intensive media campaign prior to all elections called “We get what you vote for”.
A reminder to the voter of all the broken promises, scandals, corruption and waste perpetuated by political parties who are/were in power.
@Davey Ohanlon: Led By Donkeys approach…. Absolutely…!!
@Davey Ohanlon: That’s actually a really good idea, a crowdfund to at least ensure younger people go out and vote or register to vote. Also no harm in a few motorway billboards spelling out the top 10 (of many) cockups of our current leaders who are only looking after themselves and the elite.
Vote them out.
This country needs a change, 100 years now of the same two at the top table throwing scraps at the rest of us.
The image of Mr Burns
I cant see why the tap cant be turned off immediately. This is a crisis and a disgrace!
Who voted for these people
This government a tempory little arrangement who haven’t got a mandate to be in power are bouncing their evil ways of each other,to keep out SINN Fein…. That’s why its gotten so bad, it all stems from the boom bust and both were responsible for that, not just FF…… Mick Wallace was warning us about these investment funds but no one was listening to him…. And thers nothing you can do about it…
Disgraceful
Some day the majority of citizens will finally understand that our common enemy is our corrupt banking system and complicit politicians. Both of these organisations depend on debt to have power over the people. People not educated to understand. Remove the ability of banks to create debt and the politicians to deficit spend and our world would be a whole lot better
His can ban me if you like but they are nothing but a shower of corrupt bastrds not one bit toxic it is nothing but plain truth
@Derek Richardson:
Maybe we should have listened to Varadkar
“voting for Mehole, would be like bringing John Delaney back”
@Liam Byrne: no maybe we shouldn’t listen to varadkar. They both evolved from the same slime pit.
@Liam Byrne: It didn’t stop him going into coalition with him did it.
I thought state aid in the form of preferential tax treatment that is not available to competitors (ie ordinary people) is illegal.
This is the last straw, give us a general election now. I’m done with voting FFG.
Anything over one home should be considered bulk purchase in fairness…
Ceos of vulture funds calling Michael tell them ìts done
What state will this country be in by the time they go off at 55 with three pensions?
I know how politics works , I have studied it a long time and this was open deception. I’ve never voted SF and I don’t really want to but I think it’s the only option now at this stage.
Take the tax off them. The govt have no problem taking it off its citizens.
Just stop voting in FF/FG , half the comments here are coming across defending them. Short memory lads….
Micheál and sneaky sit well together.
This is not the fianna fail or fianna gael that was founded early in the last century. This is a bunch of people mostly school teachers who have only one objective and that is to feather their nests. Don’t have any thoughts for this great country. Shame on them
One of the moments that they show their TRUE COLOURS
A family member I know was selling a house recently. Two couples were bidding. An insurance company came in with a higher bid and took it. Will rent it out to the council. Shameful.
Name the TDS that vote for this farce
@Nan:
Will SF vote on it or will they leave the Dail to watch the big game tonight llike they did on the Special criminal court last week
@Declan Sweeney: thats right Declan. Quick! Look over there! The government is literally prostituting this country and its citizens to vested interests and has demonstrated it literally doesn’t give a toss about out younger generatios. No health system, no housing, a crumbling judicial system and gross mismanagement of our finances. Your response? Asking if SF will vote on a motion that will pass anyway. If it wasn’t so sad that people like you have your head buried so deep in the sand you dont known.which way is up anymore I’d laugh at you
@Nan: Name them? They’re every single member of the FF/FG/G Dáil. They all voted by the whip. Every one of them is to blame. You get what you vote for.
Absolute joke. Insult after injury. Just go now and never come back.
The FF crooks are at it again. This whole government is a sham. They care for nothing but their rich friends.
Disgusting….This should not be allowed
Gross
Unbeliveable
Bizarre
Unprecedented
LOOTING WITH IMPUNITY
Of course they passed it, because they are,
•Collectively
•Unified
•Nefarious
•Treacherous
•Shysters
Bye bye FFG
This is shocking stuff undefensible
Govt win 74-59 =133 There is 164 TD’s (I think) in the Dail. 31 didn’t vote or abstained. Wonder why and who they are. I wonder did anyone vote twice or vote for someone else or are they too principled and ethical.
@Barrycelona: Who voted and how should be part of the article on Dail votes
@Barrycelona: I was just going to post the same comment (I thought it was 160). This will be on the Dail record if you look it up in a few days. It’s a disgrace. Good to know we can’t count on the opposition TDs either, whoever abstained or maybe even voted for it
The boys ! At it again .
Why are Irish people putting up with this? Revolution is the only way… bring back hanging too.
Why is everybody so surprised and why are most people putting the blame at FFG’s door SF have got into hot water by refusing to back some housing projects Where are the left, PBP and most Independents Their silence is deafening. Another by election and 3 of the big boys are top of the charts to win, yet again. We all know we are being dealt empty promises and the people who vote, vote them in because FFG look out for their interests. They can invest in Cuckoo co’s and get big returns. The housing crisis has been going on for over 5 years. Why?? And what about ‘ saving the plant’ FfG are being allowed to get away with stunts like this because the people voting for them have other interests. It is despicable what FFG have done but there is a simple way to stop them. Vote!!!!
What’s the minimum period of the lease?
@Watchful Axe: think is 20 or 25 years. Then the Cuckoo fund still owns the properties and the council will need to enter a new long-term lease as we can be assured, FF/FG will still not build houses over the next 20 years.
@Alan Wright: Who maintains the properties though as this can be a huge cost?
@Mickety Dee: The Council maintains the properties in these type of contracts. So, its cost on top of cost. That’s why it’s much more economical in the medium/long run for councils to build properties as they retain the asset too.
Has everyone noticed how the cost of the National Children’s Hospital is doomed to surpass €1.4 billion. Just take into context the insanity of this spend in European terms. It completely blows every tax source out the plug hole with this bill. Insanity
@Tony: They quoted a figure of €1.7 billion on the tonight show earlier. Up from a planned €0.7 billion
Michael and Leo u turns and flip flopping from the past. https://www.facebook.com/TheIrishInquiry/videos/862024034715586
Worst ever government at the worst time hate them with a passion
Nobody wants this.
It’s time for a General Election.
Its like they’re in a hurry to bring us back to dire times when people lived in substandard homes, because the way things are going that all the average person will be able to afford, sad times
The “opposition” agrees to abstain members from votes if a Government TD can’t make it to the Dail because of an “unavoidable appointment”?
Are they an opposition or just an extension of the government?
Bye bye, FFG
Why would the government support this?
Sinn Fein have my full support after this. At least they’ll build the houses and then proceed to be just as bad at everything else…..
Name all who voted for this and print in for all to see
Utterly shameful. Ff/fg/green are clearly protecting the interest of a small number of players who fund them.
@Paul Whitehead: Plus the opposition TDs that could have prevented it
@HectorPickaxe: fill us all in. How could the opposition prevent this blatant feathering of nests????
@M Bowe: OK, so I’ll help you out with your maths homework just this once, hope my figures are correct ;-)
The vote was 74-59. There are 159 TDs at the moment. 83 in Government and 76 in opposition. 26 didn’t vote. So if the 76 opposing TDs voted against it they would have beaten the 74 voting for it. That’s assuming all of the opposition would vote against it.
Unfortunately 26 of our elected TDs either didn’t bother turning up, or abstained from the vote. Will be interesting to see the dail records to see if all of the 74 were in government parties or if any independents or others voted for it.
Totally corrupt paying 52 of net income in rent letter in the post yesterday up another 8 percent on the pup for last 18 months never missed a payment be better off to go out and get arrested and already know at over 50 I might as well jump in the Liffey
Absentee landlords , sounds familiar
Name all who voted for this and print it for all to see
Remember the outrage from FFG . The promise the vulture companies would be brought to heel. This is the same FFG supported by the Greens whose only objective is to preserve the status quo of big business. Martin the most despicable Taoisach. That says a lot considering what came before him.
So free houses really do exist in this state. For vulture fund investors who buy them and lease back to councils in crazy rental agreements which undertake to reimburse the purchase price plus. Then return these properties ( citizens homes) back as fully owned assets of the vultures.
Who are these investors in such funds and are they making or influencing these crazy decisions????
Justice herself, famed for fair dealing,
by blindness had not lost her feeling;
her left hand, which the scales should hold,
had often dropped them, bribed with gold;
Totally ridiculous, they should be passing a law to prevent funds from buying homes.
C#nt
We all really need to get real! Consistantly in recent times whenever Opposition Parties raise an objection to some part of Government policy it makes a headline piece in Journal.ie & some of Social Media!..I know a local Election is on this week, but the Taosaigh is right on this occasion. Opposition for Opposition sake, just noise! A bit of Balance Journal.!
@anne: so your OK with Government giving Vultures tax breaks?
@anne: Seems like you’re not too bothered Anne. Probably think all those moaning youngsters need to buck up and work harder than they already are to buy their first home.
@anne: sad
@anne: other countries have a rental system that doesn’t enslave and diminish the standard of living of its citizens.
Consistent tax breaks to banks, corporations, and vulture funds only benefit the elite, at the cost of generations of Irish taxpayers.
Show me an example of these breaks, charitable statuses where they are benefiting Irish society?
The TD’s who voted for this are a thundering disgrace
Pyramid, ponzi, parasitic, putrid politics. The FFG get rich quick scheme, they’ll be great! Sure you voted for this so I wish them good luck in their conscious free bargain basement devaluation of your pensions and savings. It’s only great crack to see the delusional crowd think that they can remain untouched by this debacle. Mr Magoo politicing.
They could change the laws on CPO for this type of thing. They would have years to work it out.
Tomorrow could be the start of the end. #DBSBE.
Why is this happening
What’s new
Fupp them anyway
We are all losers with this arrangement in government it time for a general election and people watch where you put you mark
WOW again a shafting of the people
There they were gone
Hopefully this will cost this inept government the next election .
Council own the land esbjerg belongs to us Irish belongs to us trades in Dublin get the same salaries all over ireland ff@fg say we cannot build the amount of houses needed so the houses have be so expenses cannot understand they can borrow money @zero interest ???????????????????????
@Joseph Duggan: totally agree
One reason to go out and vote today if you are in Dublin Bay South. Send our Landlords (FF, FG, GREENS & OTHERS) a message
Someone in the government or senior civil service is writing this bill in the cold awareness of preserving their income. That or those people should be rooted out and tried for treason.
..selling off our Country bit by bit..
Well done to all the clowns who vote for parties that work against the people they’re supposed to represent…Well done..
They are completely blind to the damage they have done to our young generation and to themselves in the next election. I’ll never vote for any of these ever again!!
Generation rent slave, learn to grow potatoes again. Emigration of more young Irish talent.
It’s as if the British landlord model and the Viking slave port of Dublin, never left.
It is definitely time for a “Liberator”, once again in Irish society.
We need Irish Emancipation, from the carpet baggers.
Wrong
Drink up there have yis no homes to go to remember that can’t do either now
Booo
Boo.
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Cookies, device or similar online identifiers (e.g. login-based identifiers, randomly assigned identifiers, network based identifiers) together with other information (e.g. browser type and information, language, screen size, supported technologies etc.) can be stored or read on your device to recognise it each time it connects to an app or to a website, for one or several of the purposes presented here.
Advertising presented to you on this service can be based on limited data, such as the website or app you are using, your non-precise location, your device type or which content you are (or have been) interacting with (for example, to limit the number of times an ad is presented to you).
Information about your activity on this service (such as forms you submit, content you look at) can be stored and combined with other information about you (for example, information from your previous activity on this service and other websites or apps) or similar users. This is then used to build or improve a profile about you (that might include possible interests and personal aspects). Your profile can be used (also later) to present advertising that appears more relevant based on your possible interests by this and other entities.
Advertising presented to you on this service can be based on your advertising profiles, which can reflect your activity on this service or other websites or apps (like the forms you submit, content you look at), possible interests and personal aspects.
Information about your activity on this service (for instance, forms you submit, non-advertising content you look at) can be stored and combined with other information about you (such as your previous activity on this service or other websites or apps) or similar users. This is then used to build or improve a profile about you (which might for example include possible interests and personal aspects). Your profile can be used (also later) to present content that appears more relevant based on your possible interests, such as by adapting the order in which content is shown to you, so that it is even easier for you to find content that matches your interests.
Content presented to you on this service can be based on your content personalisation profiles, which can reflect your activity on this or other services (for instance, the forms you submit, content you look at), possible interests and personal aspects. This can for example be used to adapt the order in which content is shown to you, so that it is even easier for you to find (non-advertising) content that matches your interests.
Information regarding which advertising is presented to you and how you interact with it can be used to determine how well an advert has worked for you or other users and whether the goals of the advertising were reached. For instance, whether you saw an ad, whether you clicked on it, whether it led you to buy a product or visit a website, etc. This is very helpful to understand the relevance of advertising campaigns.
Information regarding which content is presented to you and how you interact with it can be used to determine whether the (non-advertising) content e.g. reached its intended audience and matched your interests. For instance, whether you read an article, watch a video, listen to a podcast or look at a product description, how long you spent on this service and the web pages you visit etc. This is very helpful to understand the relevance of (non-advertising) content that is shown to you.
Reports can be generated based on the combination of data sets (like user profiles, statistics, market research, analytics data) regarding your interactions and those of other users with advertising or (non-advertising) content to identify common characteristics (for instance, to determine which target audiences are more receptive to an ad campaign or to certain contents).
Information about your activity on this service, such as your interaction with ads or content, can be very helpful to improve products and services and to build new products and services based on user interactions, the type of audience, etc. This specific purpose does not include the development or improvement of user profiles and identifiers.
Content presented to you on this service can be based on limited data, such as the website or app you are using, your non-precise location, your device type, or which content you are (or have been) interacting with (for example, to limit the number of times a video or an article is presented to you).
With your acceptance, your precise location (within a radius of less than 500 metres) may be used in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
With your acceptance, certain characteristics specific to your device might be requested and used to distinguish it from other devices (such as the installed fonts or plugins, the resolution of your screen) in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Your data can be used to monitor for and prevent unusual and possibly fraudulent activity (for example, regarding advertising, ad clicks by bots), and ensure systems and processes work properly and securely. It can also be used to correct any problems you, the publisher or the advertiser may encounter in the delivery of content and ads and in your interaction with them.
Certain information (like an IP address or device capabilities) is used to ensure the technical compatibility of the content or advertising, and to facilitate the transmission of the content or ad to your device.
Information about your activity on this service may be matched and combined with other information relating to you and originating from various sources (for instance your activity on a separate online service, your use of a loyalty card in-store, or your answers to a survey), in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
In support of the purposes explained in this notice, your device might be considered as likely linked to other devices that belong to you or your household (for instance because you are logged in to the same service on both your phone and your computer, or because you may use the same Internet connection on both devices).
Your device might be distinguished from other devices based on information it automatically sends when accessing the Internet (for instance, the IP address of your Internet connection or the type of browser you are using) in support of the purposes exposed in this notice.
The choices you make regarding the purposes and entities listed in this notice are saved and made available to those entities in the form of digital signals (such as a string of characters). This is necessary in order to enable both this service and those entities to respect such choices.
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