@thomas molloy: Expect the opposite. They’ll bring in cheap, untrained foreign labour to build shoddy houses and give themselves bonuses and pay rises

@Will: NAMA made us money. Facts matter :)

@Will: We wouldn’t have needed NAMA if Fianna Fáil hadn’t bankrupted the country.

@Gerry Ryan: the IMF were going to pump money into a property bubble? lol

@Marvin Dollery: of course he is. He is suggesting that migrants are treated better than the Irish population. So it is an attempt to demonise and isolate the migrant population. Classic playbook, you clown

@Kevin Kerr: he is speaking truth Kevin, on rte the other night was a woman who was working caring for her disabled child. She was unable to keep up the rent was evicted. Sat next to her was an immigrant who said she is the country 6 months and now has a 3 bed house off the state. It’s facts not the immigrants faults but the cabbages who run the country and force emigration it’s backward.

@Susan Walsh: Not everyone has a happy and supportive home environment. They have to get out and can’t.

We won’t be able to decorate our way out of this one, Susan

@Darth O’Leary: I wasn’t saying that there isn’t a housing crisis. Jaysus. I was literally just commenting on the piece that seemed to imply if you don’t move out at 18, you’re stunted as an adult which isn’t true.

@damien leen: how about the beginning. What is your problem with what I wrote?

@Marvin Dollery: eh I’m not justifying anything at all. I’m literally just saying that if you are living at home as an adult, then it is possible to not revert to behaving like a teen but requires effort. I didn’t say anything about the lack of housing or that people should live in their parents. I agree completely that there is a major lack of appropriate housing and affordable housing in the country and something needs to be done on that front.

@Susan Walsh: Ok Susan, thanks for clarifying.

@Ronan Mc: show me where I said anything suggesting that the lack of affordable housing isn’t a real or growing problem? No. I just made the point about how if you’re in your teenage room as an adult & reverting to acting like a teen, maybe do something about your behaviour and environment. Because unfortunately that might be all you have control over with the upwards cost of housing. I get that people need to get out and can’t but my comment wasn’t aimed at that or suggesting papering over the cracks. It was literally just saying that if you are in the situation of living at home as an adult, you do not have to resort to behaving like a teen or using that as an excuse to behave as such.

@Susan Walsh: Your comment is both sensible and reasonable. Don’t worry if it triggers a few dependent snowflakes, waiting for the government to maintain the umbilical chord through adulthood.

@Susan Walsh: Susan, can I ask you how your parents and yourself managed dinner times? I’m soon to face the bleak prospect of adult children stuck at home (a small one with that) and I wholeheartedly agree with your view that adult children living with their parents need to behave like adults. We have already discussed a token rent and bill share, minimal but enough to ensure that they start practicing paying their own bills. They are very good teens and help around so I’m not worried about this. Did you work out a planner for says you’d be home for dinner or not? Did you cook for yourself and if so did your own shopping with maybe a little dip in mammy’s cupboards? Thanks

@Susan Walsh: And that’s your idea of getting along and creating an independent life and family for yourself!
Pathetic

@Susan Walsh: I get ya. Only messing really. Didn’t mean to join a pile on. Have a nice evening

@Susan Walsh: When you’re in a hole, stop digging….
You might as well have commented ‘Well, I’m alright Jack.’ Don’t be surprised then that people didn’t like your comment.

@Susan Walsh: Yeah and if you were there long after those 3 years. Say another 10. What then?

@Susan Walsh: very well said. This article is just a whinge from people who have failed at life through being lazy and having too much of an ego.

@Susan Walsh: you have triggered the losers still living with their mom at 40 lol

@Susan Walsh: so what job did you have that would cover a 400,000 mortgage,or did mummy and daddy help with that as well .
Smacks of the Robert Troy school of bs

@sean weir: good God!! @susan walsh was only making a sensible point that IF people are in the situation of living at home for a while, it’s up to them to make an effort until the situation improves, and not regressing to teenage traits or expecting mammy to do the stuff

@Anne WG: So my rent amount included contribution to the overall household running so bills & food. If I wanted anything that was not the normal shopping my mam did, I’d buy it myself. We had 2 small fridges in the kitchen so I kept all my stuff on one shelf in one. In terms of being included for dinner. My mam would tell me what she was planning to make & ask if I wanted some. If I did, grand. If not, I’d just either make myself something before or after my parents had gotten theirs. If I wasn’t going to be home for dinner, I’d just drop a text saying such.

@sean weir: no my Mam didn’t help & my dad passed away when I was in my early 20′s. I’m the daughter of a primary school teacher & a nurse so no extra money from them growing up. I’m an accountant by profession & the only way I got a mortgage was by saving like a dog & having a partner on a similar salary. And being lucky enough to buy pre-kids. I recognise I was lucky to get a mortgage & to have a home to call my own so less of the nasty please. And no I didn’t buy until I was in my early 30′s so not like I walked out of home into a house of my own – I rented for the intervening years.

@Ronan Mc: I’m not in a hole. My comment had nothing to do with people stuck at home. It was literally about the idea that if you don’t move out at 18 you’re stunted as an adult which I fundamentally disagree with.

@Paul M Doe: Ah no I don’t think that at all. I have friends who had to move back home to have any chance of saving with the way rents have gone & all of them would have good jobs. When rent is taking circa 50% of your take home pay it can be tough as hell to get savings to a level needed considering the house prices too. My only issue with the article is the idea that not moving out at 18 somehow stunts your growth as an adult.

@Thomas Sheridan: Explain how it is pathetic? I have a fully independent life & family now so yes I did create that. But did I make the most of a situation where I couldn’t afford to move out & rent? Yes I did. What’s pathetic is name calling people on the internet because you have a different experience to someone else.

@John Moore: I probably would have kept going the way I had. At the time I moved out, it was just myself & my mam in the house as my dad had passed away. It wouldn’t have been ideal by any stretch & I’m not saying it would have but my mam respected me as an adult at that point so we would have lived as 2 adults in the house together. I did have my own life totally outside my parents home between work, friends, dates & studying so that probably would have continued. I know I was lucky when I moved out as rents were lower by a lot than what they are now so I was able to. I recognise that luck. And I know people who lived similar to me with a parent until they’re mid-30′s & again it was almost like a shared house arrangement than a parent-child one. But that does take work.

@Susan Walsh: don’t waste your time on the hate filled clowns on here

@Ger Whelan: And there it is… there’s always a Ger Whelan type in the comments coming out with drivel like “back in my day yada yada yada” and “young people these days don’t know how to work etc. etc.” Ger, I’m guessing you came from a generation where 1 income per household was enough to buy a house, and you didn’t need a Masters degree as a minimum to get a good job, so you haven’t a clue.

@Les Whinin: Oh les I do have a clue. For example I interviewed 4 lads aged 18-20 for an apprenticeship. Not one of them came prepared. 3 didn’t even know what kind of apprenticeship it was for. None had any questions about the job or what we do as a company. The only questions they asked was how much does the job pay, the working hours, time off etc etc etc. one brought his mother into the interview for moral support and asked would i be willing to pay her for driving him to work and wait outside to help him. One wanted me to pay for his driving lessons and driving test and help with his insurance as he’ll need a car to get to work. All 4 interviews were a complete waste of my time. All they wanted was to know what was in it for them.

@Ger Whelan: one example, Ger of 4 lads that you didn’t employ. What about the ones that you do employ? Do they all have a sense of entitlement too? You do agree that there is a housing crisis, and that the cost of housing is unaffordable for many, right? Advocating for government and policy makers to fix this does not equate to a sense of entitlement

@Les Whinin: good post, councillor!

@Ger Whelan: I always make sure to interview a millennial when filling a position. I do it as a means to justify why I will never employ people from generation lazy