Will an increased pressure to build rather than acquire give local authorities more flexibility in terms of building to suit the gradually changing demand profile? where single households may soon, or even now, outnumber family sized?

Yes, indeed...alas, sadly, Governments have to stick within the laws of the land..

Natural increase, registered births minus deaths added Circa 1.1 million between 1985 and 2025.. In 1985, there was around 380,000 people aged over 65, rising to 860,000 in 2025..

Was she not due to be interviewed by PSNI today??

Around 65% to 70% of foreign born now in Ireland come from the continent of Europe. Freedom of movement. There is somewhere between 710,000 and a million Irish born living abroad.

Online review is good. It may be that another customer might look twice at the picture and pause long enough to reconsider... if maybe they should check out other options. Yes, people get what they order... but no harm in questioning if what they got was good value..and the joys of SM lets us share our thoughts..

British Government lost the right to decide how Ireland should deploy its military over a hundred years ago Putin or Trump should never have been given any say in the matter.

He is a politician, and a Minister.. no minister is going to even hint that measures will lead to house prices falling.. too specific a yardstick to beat themselves with Nobody really expects house prices to fall.. but it would be good if the rate of increase diminished to below inflation..

The state, with deep pockets, is the single biggest buyer in the housing market. It is very difficult for the ordinary guy to compete. Making local authorities, maybe in consultation with LDA concentrate more on new builds seems to makes sense?? It also allows them to design various sizes to suit demand, with an increasing switch towards single housing list applicants

Where would you make the changes? The main fiscal propriety concerns seem to be on the expenditure side, spending too much?

The size of the awards may have been influenced by the fact that these posts have been subject to a pay freeze for 15 years. The awards are a mix of pay restoration and updating missed annual increases

Great... it is one thing to refuse to accept a new assigned case but totally wrong to abandon an existing client in mid stream..

Everyone wants lower taxes... but they also want the services funded from taxation to keep on growing..

They will from now on...

Can you look beyond LFS data?

Can you estimate what % of the foreign born in Ireland came from the wider continent of Europe, incl UK and Ukraine? Overall EU, what % of foreign born now in EU states collectively are from other EU countries?

In Ireland's case, 65% to 70% of foreign born living in Ireland came from other parts of the continent of Europe..including UK and, latterly, Ukraine..

65% to 70% of non irish born came from the continent of Europe

28%/29% of housing lists are not Irish, around half of those are not from Europe Around 12% getting jobseekers allowance are not Europeans.

Picture over the last 10 years might be