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HOUSING IS THE number one topic coming up at the doorsteps during canvassing, according to general election candidates.
An acute supply of housing and affordable rents is a frequent talking point during this election, as it has been during previous campaigns, as more and more voters demand better action to tackle the ongoing crisis.
So, where does each party stand?
Targets
According to a report by the Housing Commission this year, there is currently a deficit of 250,000 homes in the country. It recommended that the government make up the difference through delivering a mix of private and public homes.
Fine Gael is promising to deliver 303,000 homes by 2030. Over half of that, 133,000 homes, will be social, affordable and cost-rental properties.
Fianna Fáil is committing to build 360,000 homes by 2030. The party says that 122,000 of those builds will be affordable and social homes.
The Green Party has said it will deliver 250,000 – 265,000 homes over a five-year term, which includes at least 135,000 social, affordable and cost-rental properties. Additionally, the party will renovate 20,000 vacant properties every year.
Sinn Féin is promising to build 300,000 new homes over five years, including 125,000 affordable-purchase, social and affordable-rental homes. It plans to increase social housing through new builds and acquisitions of property and drive down the price of housing by building on state-owned land and selling only the property to the buyer.
The Social Democrats have made it known that a ‘red line issue’ for going into government is that a coalition partner must agree to build 50,000 affordable-purchase homes over five years. The demand was included in its social housing policy last month, when the party pledged to deliver 25,000 affordable-rental homes as well over five years.
People Before Profit is promising to deliver 115,000 social homes and 25,000 affordable homes over five years and do so through establishing a state construction company – using funds from the Apple Tax pot to get it up and running.
Aontú intends to build 15,000 social and affordable homes a year if in government.
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Subsidies/support schemes
The Help to Buy scheme gives a grant to buyers of up to €30,000 for newly-built homes valued at €500,000 or less.
The First Home Scheme is a shared-equity scheme where the Government and banks purchase a 30% stake in a house. Charges are imposed on homeowners after six years if they have decided not to buy back the stake within that period. These fees continue over 30 years or until the property is sold.
Estate agents have said otherwise, claiming prices are driven by the market and increasing due to a lack of supply – therefore, reaching an ‘affordability cap’ and requiring State intervention.
Fine Gael intends to retain the help-to-buy scheme and increase the grant to €40,000. The party also plans to broaden the First Home scheme so that first-time buyers purchasing a second-hand home are eligible for the support.
Fianna Fáil also intends to retain the Help to Buy scheme and extend it to 2030 – but do not have plans to broaden it. For existing homeowners, the party is offering a €100,000 refurbishment grant so those with older properties can retrofit the house.
Help to Buy also features on The Green Party’s manifesto, with a promise to retain the scheme and expand it to renters who are seeking to buy the property that they are leasing. The party is also promising to install 200,000 solar panels on homes in low-income communities.
Under Sinn Féin, people will still be able to avail of the €30,000 grant in the Help to Buy in 2025, but it will wind down by €6,000 per year thereafter. The party will also abolish stamp duty – a tax paid on the transfer of residential property ownership – for first-time buyers with houses priced €450,000 or less.
People Before Profit have voiced opposition to the schemes previously. The party proposes a cap on mortgage interest rates, at 3%, and to extend the mortgage-to-rent scheme – used to keep people out of mortgage arrears. Additionally, People Before Profit promise a 100% redress scheme to homeowners with properties that have defects from the Celtic Tiger or were built using defective concrete blocks.
The Social Democrats plan to phase out the both schemes, but it is not a red line for them going into a coalition. Labour promises to abolish both funding avenues, entirely, and replace them with a more targeted plan, relative to buyers’ income.
Independent Ireland promises to increase funding for local infrastructure and social housing, and incentivise owners of vacant properties to develop homes. The party will also declare housing as an emergency so inter-departmental working groups can be established in government.
Aontú is proposing two separate grants – one for for refurbishing 8,000 vacant homes per year and another for refurbishing above-shop accommodation. It also plans to impose a zero-VAT rate on construction materials over a five-year period to decrease the cost of building homes.
Fine Gael intend to launch ring-fenced cost-rental properties for frontline workers and increase the rent tax credit from €1,000 to €1,500. Fianna Fáil plans to double the credit.
SinnFéin, Labour, People Before Profit and the Social Democrats plan a three-year rent freeze and promise to reinstate the no-fault eviction ban. Aontú also pledge to enact a no-fault eviction ban.
People Before Profit has said it will triple the rent tax credit to €3,000.
Independent Ireland want to remove a clause, that allows landlords to pass on portions of their tax bill to tenants, for all renters paying under €1,000 a month.
The Green Party has strongly supported the tenant-in-situ scheme, where a local authority purchases a property from a landlord who is exiting the market to keep the resident in the home.
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@Chaotic State: The Oslo Accords and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process
On September 13, 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Negotiator Mahmoud Abbas signed a Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, commonly referred to as the “Oslo Accord,” at the White House. Israel accepted the PLO as the representative of the Palestinians, and the PLO renounced terrorism and recognized Israel’s right to exist in peace. Both sides agreed that a Palestinian Authority (PA) would be established and assume governing responsibilities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip over a five-year period. Then, permanent status talks on the issues would be held. But the peace process ran aground, and a new round of Israeli-Palestinian violence began .
@Chaotic State: FF councillors abstained from the bill last week in Cork city council. Looks like the party have pulled a 180 on it since going into government with FG.
@Tom Newell: Government did the right thing by the country’s best interest. Anyway back on topic. “Social and economic discrimination caused significant Jewish emigration from Palestine, and Muslim civil wars in the 8th and 9th centuries pushed many Jews out of the country. By the end of the 11th century the Jewish population of Palestine had declined substantially.
They’ve sat on this bill since December 2020. It is not just about Palestine, it would cover all occupied territories from the west Bank to western Sahara. There is blood on the hands of the Irish government and every excuse they make in relation to the otb and arms embargo just make that blood flow
@Lance Taylor: sometimes the moral approach is to look after or fight for those that are worse off than ourselves and in my opinion the people of Gaza and Lebanon are those people at the minute. The world looks on and does absolutely nothing, it’s happened all over again, and if people don’t want to speak out l, well I believe they are cowards, diplomacy is fruitless
@Alex: The ignorance is dripping off every comment you make. You do realise there are Christian Palestinians? Many of them have been killed by the indiscriminate Israeli attacks
Not Irelands problem, America and the uk created this all those years ago. Our country has of its own problems enough to do deal with, no need for virtue signaling for the EU.
@Mary Kelly: true. and anyway Israel made sure that everything is destroyed completely so no one will live there except their colons. everyone and Martin knows but a bit more hypocrisy does not shame him either
@Mary Kelly: Ireland is one of Israel’s biggest European trading partners, no one else is willing to lead on this so us taking responsibility for our role in this genocide is as good a place as any to begin
@Mary Kelly: Do you not think this is a bit spineless and insular Mary? Yes, we can all wash our hands and look the other way, that’s an option. On the other hand many can see the moral imperative to speak out and stand up for people suffering under systems of oppression.
Sometimes I think people commenting here aren’t aware of how brutal and unjust the occupation and ‘settlement’ by some of the Israeli’s actually is. You don’t even have to get into the debate over who has rights over the entire territory. We’re talking about humans who have lived in the same place for generations being burnt out of their homes or violently removed. They watch powerlessly as their entire life is stolen so someone else can walk in and live there.
The way the laws are set up, there’s no room for comeback or reparations. Homes stolen and left to walk the roads. This is unjust, inhumane and cruel beyond belief. It’s not virtue signalling to raise our voices and lend support. It’s simply the right and moral thing to do. Do you realise how many things changed for the better in our own country because certain individuals were willing to stand up and be counted? They were ostracised by the people who dislike anyone who makes a fuss but time has proven them heroes with real backbone. Some things need to be called out. For people suffering, simply knowing you are heard and seen and have support can mean an awful lot. We should have a deep understanding of this ourselves considering our own history.
@Hayagriva: responsibility?…… Secondly, better be very careful with this, one of the biggest might become one of the lesser and let’s hope you are not employed by them. We got enough homeless as is, all this shouting on the streets for people who rather have nothing to do with the western world and it’s customs in reality is mind boggling. Maybe we should keep women home, not allowed to do anything really, like in Iran these days, as well. Next protest march on Saturday? Our friends in Iran?
@SerotoninWars: Ireland had no hand in the creation of Israel, this was done by other countries who have now wiped their hands. As a country we have welcomed Palestinian refugees, and backed their claims and called out Israel.
The fact is our own country is in disarray, our health service is a mess, we have the highest level of homelessness ever, there is not enough teachers, there are children with additional needs without school or support services. To say that where you live needs to be prioritised does not lessen the needs of others in other countries. This bill is being used as a distraction from what needs to be done.
@Mary Kelly: I understand your point about the situation not being of our doing. I also understand your frustration at so many things that need addressing in our own country. Personally I don’t think it’s beyond us to try and sort out our own issues while also dedicating a little time to supporting the Palestinians. I don’t think doing one cancels out the other or makes it harder. There’s a lot of politicians, lawyers and civil servants at work, and of course the general public too, to lend our voices to the situation. It feels like something we really understand on a cellular level considering our history and an important thing to raise our heads above the crowd on. There are certain areas in international affairs where we shine as a small country. Regardless, hope all is well Mary :)
Israel has a right to defend it’s country and Ireland’s leaders should mind their own business.MM and FF have ruined this country for the people who live here. Unless you are an illegal or a Ukrainian you will never afford a house of your own. He would sicken you to the stomach.
@Brendan O’Brien: it’s not genocide, it’s a war, brutally one-sided as it is. If Hezbollah (Iran) and Hamas didn’t want war and the elimination of Israel, there would be more of a possiblity of peace.
Islamists only understand force. Reasonability and fairness they consider to be a sign of weakness.
@offside again: It is genocide: the attempted obliteration of an entire people. That is not war. The civilians being massacred are not combatants in any war.
@Brendan O’Brien: they are not trying to obliterate an entire people and you know it. They would have succeeded years ago if that was the case.
However there are plenty who would obliterate Israel if they could. Maybe you included would like them to disappear too?
@offside again: The facts of the matter are against you, as you know very well. Israel’s cruel and abusive deployment of its power over the Palestinians is too well established to be unknown to you. ‘They would have succeeded years ago if that was the case’ makes absolutely no sense. They are doing it now!
From my link, which appeared in the Lancet as long ago as last May and is written by a hospital director:
Since the attacks by Hamas against Israel on Oct 7, 2023, the Israeli retaliatory strikes, bombings, and strict sieges have almost never stopped. So far, more than 85% of Gaza’s population have been displaced,2 and as of April 13, 2024, at least 33 000 Palestinians have been killed (more than a third of them are children) and 70 000 civilians have been injured. Approximately 7000 Palestinians are reportedly missing—most are likely dead. This massacre has taken place in just 180 days and is still ongoing. Gaza has now been described as a graveyard of children by the UN. According to WHO and Médecins Sans Frontières, hospitals in southern Gaza are at “breaking point” while all the hospitals in northern Gaza have been destroyed and are out of service. There is very limited access to ambulances, electricity, and clean drinking water, and injured patients are being transferred to medical institutes by donkey carts. The UN announced that the number of health-care workers killed by Israeli strikes is the highest in any single conflict in the organisation’s history. Josep Borrell, a High Representative for the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has described the destruction in Gaza as being proportionally greater than that which Germany experienced in World War 2.8
A key aspect of this war is the deliberate targeting of civilians by the Israeli military—for example, in just one investigation by Amnesty International, US-made munitions were found to be used by the Israeli military in two deadly, unlawful air strikes on homes containing civilians in Gaza.9 These air strikes were either direct attacks on civilians or civilian objects or indiscriminate attacks and Amnesty International is calling for them to be investigated as war crimes.
The heinous acts described previously are not the only ones. Two shelter schools, one of them run by the UN, were attacked by the Israeli military: several men were shot with live ammunition at point-blank range; children and other civilians were arrested and stripped of their clothes; and women were arrested and threatened to be raped. Some detainees have been used by the Israeli army as human shields to storm residential homes and ground tunnels and the fate of hundreds of detainees—including men, women, and children—remains unknown.10,11 Even educational and cultural sites in Gaza have not been spared from the Israeli strikes; so far, at least 104 archaeological sites have been badly damaged, including the Jabaliya Byzantine Church that has origins dating back to 444 BCE.
What is happening in Gaza cannot be fully described in words. This brief Correspondence is a plea to every human being to help stop this genocide right now—we cannot live like this; the world should not be silent about the killing of civilians in the thousands.
I am employed as the Director of Al-Shifa Hospital.
@Brendan O’Brien: Losing a war you started is not genocide – Hamas and Hezbollah are the genocidal ones – but this seems to be too much for some people to comprehend
@Mark Eightfourone: You do know that Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians in the past year? Their only crime is to not be Jewish.
@Brendan O’Brien: is that those Israeli women and children murdered and kidnapped you mean? Are they free yet? When is your Israeli march planned, next Saturday? BTW, no idea how many are daily killed in Ukraine do we? That’s next Saturday and every Saturday there after too yes?
@Brendan O’Brien: a little lesson for you Brendan, Hamas are terrorists, about 80 percent of Palestinian civilians are sympathetic to their cause and hate western civilization, there ya go. Think about it for a while
@Joe Mc Dermott: I don’t know how many civilians are sympathetic to Hamas. I doubt that many ‘hate western civilization’, but I imagine that they do hate having bombs dropped on their houses. I do know that ‘thought crime’ is not punishable by death in any civilised society. Did the thousands of dead Palestinian babies think the wrong thing?
In any case, the IDF is a far worse terrorist organisation than Hamas, based simply on the level of its crimes against civilians. Does this mean that those who sympathise with it don’t deserve to live?
@Brendan O’Brien: then the Allies shouln’t have firebombed German cities. Nor should the Americans have dropped the atomic bomb.
Israel is surrounded by sworn enemies and wouldn’t last 3 weeks without western support. What do you suggest they do ?
Hezbollah and Hamas won’t stop until all the jews are gone.
If you don’t want a war, then don’t start one …
@Gerry Lamont: Palestine and Lebanon have a right to defend themselves. If we didn’t fight ourselves for our own freedom we would be part of the UK and still a colony.
@Brendan O’Brien: yes they do have a right to life and 2 state solution is the only way, but when Hamas attacked oct7th the parameters changed, civilians have the power there to kick Hamas out if they were not sympathetic to the cause, I’m on the fence about the war but Israel have the right to life too
@offside again: If Israel can only exist by committing genocide, then by definition it does not have a right to exist.
It is the party with almost all the power in the dysfunctional relationship. The onus is on it to try to map a way towards peace and respect for human rights. Unfortunately, it has chosen to abuse its power by oppressing and subjugating the Palestinian people to an extraordinary degree. There is no bright future in this for anybody.
@offside again: I would suggest you cop on to yourself and realise that those who call themselves Israeli have no rights to the land of the Palestinian.
@offside again: It is the Israeli who started the war.
It is the Israeli illegal colonist who invaded Palestine, setup terrorist groups and attacked both thevPalestinian people and their government to steal their homeland.
All else comes from that.
Those that call themselves Israeli are responsible for *all* the death and destruction.
Quite simply Israel has no right to exist.
It had no right to come into existence, and the Israeli – like the Nazi – has shown the World the can never be allowed control oer the lives of others, and do not deserve a country of their own.
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: stop will you, you’re embarrasing yourself with your ‘hamas’ version of history. You’re obviously blinded to the point of complete ignorance by your hatred of jews.
@Brendan O’Brien: for all us pro Israelis here’s hoping they get the job done quickly once and for all and let the new world crisis take over everyone’s senses
Unemployed people who refuse to engage with social welfare employment services will see their Jobseeker’s Benefit cut by €90 under a plan quietly signed off by the Government after the Budget.
@Argus Romsworth: Spoiler alert there lad theres always been steps put in place to cut someones welfare if they dont engage with unemployment services. The prohlem is certain folk have always managed to find ways round this, these would be the professional dole lifers who nobody will ever touch, but everyone else has to play by the rules. So hold off with glee about hating some boogeyman group of say no folks……
@Pat Hazzard: So the EU has no problem with other countries breaking international law? Strange thing for a government shill to announce. Anyway, Several eminent legal professionals who are experts in international law have eviscerated that ridiculous legal argument put forward by the disgraced AG. BTW it’s most interesting that you don’t even bother denying our ministers are giving secret assurances to terrorist states…
@Pat Hazzard: Even if it were not compatible with EU law, and there is no reason to believe this is the case, we are in breach of much other EU legislation anyway.
@Darth O’Leary: a couple of “experts” hand picked from the pro Palestinian side aren’t proof of anything. Also that story in the Ditch has been widely discredited.
No surprise there.Why not post a list of products and companies in theese occupied territories and let’s just do this ourselves every household boycott them ,as it is our presses could be full of their stuff ..
Anyone who remembers The Riordans on RTE will remembers Minnie Brennan . A bit of a busybody was Minnie . Simon Harris and Micheal Martin seem to be the Minnie Brennans of international politics , minding everyone’s business but their own .
This might sound silly, but how do we know if goods are from the occupied territories.
They might just put an office or room in Tel Aviv. I would not trust them.
2.8 billion in direct trade imports with Israel as of 2022 figures. That’s a significant amount of money heading in that direction. Can seem to find much if any info on articles made in occupied territories, at a glance
If they had the guts to call this what it really is, i.e the Israel Bill, or the anti-Israel bill, or the west bank bill, I’d probably support it. But no, it with typical Irish mealy mouth obfuscation, it’s called the “occupied territories bill”, we’re told ” “it’ll apply to occupied territories around the world”. Yeah right. Has anyone ever named another territory it might apply to? There’s talk of Western Sahara or some such. Don’t make me laugh. What exactly does Ireland buy from there? Sand?
@Jipangu: A demilitarized zone (DMZ or DZ) is an area in which treaties or agreements between states, military powers or contending groups forbid military installations, activities, or personnel. A DZ often lies along an established frontier or boundary between two or more military powers or alliances.
Good old Frances. She should succeed in getting swing doors put on the West Bank just to keep the Israelis away from the alcohol, sorry, the Palestinians!
A well paid singer and senator has nothing else to do except interfere with another country do what you are paid to our problems please is that to much to ask
Arabs want the Jews gone, from the land that they have called home for over 3500 years, and from the world in general.
The land that was nothing, until Jews made it something.
Then it’ll be our turn.
And we have an alcoholic calling for “sanction’s” against the ‘Jues’, with the support of the other ‘gob shiites for gaza’, and the followers of the ‘religionofpeacemearse’.
Pastor. Martin Niemoller, called it right.
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