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IT WAS TOUCH and go whether they were going to take place this year – but the nominees for this year’s IFTAs awards have been announced.
Frank and Patrick’s Day have topped the list for film nominations with nine apiece, while unsurprisingly, Love/Hate has the highest number of nominations for a television programme with seven.
Vikings had the next highest number of television nominations with seven, followed by Charlie, The Fall and Game of Thrones, which all received three nominations.
Glassland, I Used to Live Here, Noble and Song of the Sea all received multiple nominations in the film categories.
There are a total of 27 categories across film and television categories.
The awards are slightly different from previous years: they’ve been split into two, with the film and drama awards taking place in Dublin’s Mansion House on 24 May and the television awards taking place in October.
The programme will be broadcast on TV3, but in a one-hour special rather than in last year’s much-criticised format.
Here is the full list of nominees:
Best Film
Frank
Glassland
I Used to live here
Noble
Patrick’s Day
Song of the Sea
Director - Film
Lenny Abrahamson – Frank
Gerard Barrett – Glassland
John Carney – Begin Again
Terry McMahon – Patrick’s Day
Script – Film
Gerard Barrett – Glassland
Frank Berry – I Used to Live Here
Will Collins – Song of the Sea
Terry McMahon -Patrick’s Day
Actor in a Lead Role in Film
Moe Dunford – Patrick’s Day
Colin Farrell – Miss Julie
Michael Fassbender – Frank
Jack Reynor – Glassland
Actress in a Lead Role in Film
Tara Breathnach – A Nightingale Falling
Jordanne Jones – I Used to Live Here
Simone Kirby – Jimmy’s Hall
Deirdre O’Kane – Noble
Actor in a Supporting Role in Film
Domhnall Gleeson – Frank
Allen Leech – The Imitation Game
James Nesbitt – Gold
Andrew Scott – Pride
Actress in a Supporting Role in Film
Kerry Condon -Gold
Sinéad Cusack – Queen and Country
Sarah Greene – Noble
Catherine Walker – Patrick’s Day
George Morrison Feature Documentary
Blood Fruit – Ferndale Films
In A House That Ceased To Be – Atlantic Film Alliance
One Million Dubliners – Underground Films
Road – DoubleBand Films
Unbreakable- Ross Whitaker
Drama
Charlie
The Fall Season 2
Game Of Thrones
Love/Hate 5
Vikings
Director – Drama
David Caffrey – Love/Hate 5
Ciaran Donnelly – Vikings
Colm McCarthy – Peaky Blinders Series 2
Dearbhla Walsh – Penny Dreadful
Script – Drama
Stuart Carolan – Love/Hate 5
Tom Collins/Eoin McNamee/Paul Walker -An Bronntanas
Colin Murphy – The Guarantee
Colin Teevan – Charlie
Actor in a Lead Role in Drama
Jamie Dornan – The Fall Series 2
Aidan Gillen – Charlie
Cillian Murphy – Peaky Blinders Series 2
Tom Vaughan Lawlor – Love/Hate 5
Actress in a Lead Role Drama
Caitriona Balfe – Outlander
Michelle Beamish – An Bronntanas (The Gift)
Maria Doyle Kennedy – Corp + Anam
Charlie Murphy – Love/Hate
Actor in a Supporting Role in Drama
John Connors – Love/Hate
Liam Cunningham – Game of Thrones
Stephen Rea – The Honourable Woman
Andrew Scott – Sherlock: His Last Vow
Actress in a Supporting Role in Drama
Charlotte Bradley – An Bronntanas (The Gift)
Aisling Franciosi – The Fall Series 2
Charlie Murphy – The Village (Series 2)
Mary Murray -Love/Hate 5
Director Of Photography
PJ Dillon -Vikings
Michael Lavelle – Patrick’s Day
James Mather – Frank
Piers McGrail -Glassland
Costume Design
Joan Bergin – Vikings
Consolata Boyle – Miss Julie
Lorna Marie Mugan – Peaky Blinders
Eimear Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh -Jimmy’s Hall
Editing
Uná Ní Dhonghaíle -The Missing
Nathan Nugent – Frank
Emer Reynolds – One Million Dubliners
Emer Reynolds – Patrick’s Day
Make-Up & Hair
All is by My Side
Frank
Ripper Street
Vikings
Original Score
Ray Harman – Patrick’s Day
David Holmes – ‘71
Stephen McKeon – Queen and Country
Stephen Rennicks – Frank
Production Design
Tom Conroy – Vikings
Mark Geraghty – Vikings
John Paul Kelly – The Theory of Everything
Donal Woods – Downton Abbey
Sound
The Canal
Frank
Game of Thrones
Patrick’s Day
International Film
‘71
Boyhood
The Imitation Game
The Theory of Everything
International Actor
Steve Carrell – Foxcatcher
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game
Jake Gyllenhall – Nightcrawler
Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything
International Actress
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Toni Collette – Glassland
Jessica Chastain – Miss Julie
Julianne Moore – Still Alice
Animation Short
An Ode to Love – Matthew Darragh
Fresh Cut Grass- Boulder Media
Somewhere Down the Line – Julien Regnard
The Ledge End of Phil (from accounting) – Paul Morris
Short Film
Boogaloo and Graham – Michael Lennox / Ronan Blaney / Brian Falconer
I Am Here -David Holmes
Rockmount – David Tynan
Skunky Dog – James Fitzgerald
Any predictions? Let us know in the comments…
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They have to build social housing, allocate it to workers and charge a rent that covers the costs of building. Plenty of young professionals would welcome it and happily live in it.
If the rent was fixed at a certain level it would not cost the state in the long run.
Social housing shouldn’t all be allocated to the poor because they can’t afford the rent and they are making the scheme lose money.
A lot of people think social housing is free, and maybe the journal should run an article patiently explaining what it is and how it works so those people can calm down and stop spamming every housing article with misinformation.
@SC: I would welcome that fact check. In particular how many social housing projects have been built in Ireland, and how many occupants pay their contribution from social welfare (the commonly misunderstood “free” housing). Also, you are focusing on working families bring allocated housing at cost, do they have to still these at cost as well when they need mobility, and how does this affect the official homeless in emergency accommodation, who in general have at least 1 family member in full time receipt of social welfare?
@SC: exactly: this is where some people miss the whole point. Affordable housing as opposed to an affordable house was always a State provision. In the UK it’s a ‘council hoise’ ‘corporation house’ a ‘municiple house’.. Calling it ‘Social’ housing immediately has people thinking its for those on the social. It’s never just, its for low income families etc paying affordable rent.
This system here is broken. Council housing kept disposable income high which boosted local economies, kept cost of living wage increases minimised and gave people the chance to save and move up the ladder as careers took off.
Now its Fine Geal slavishly ensuring its cronies still have their snouts in the trough and the ‘private market’ benefits from States recieving taxes and assets. Its a disgrace.
@Gulliver Foyle: if rent is paid for out of social welfare then it is free. Free because the recipient does not work for the money.
@SC: “Social housing shouldn’t all be allocated to the poor because they can’t afford the rent and they are making the scheme lose money.”
What a disgusting comment. Where do you propose the ‘poor’ should live? Send them to Spike Island? Build concentration camps in rural areas away from people? Blueshirts never cease to amaze me with their hatred of the ‘poor’.
@SC: I agree completely with what you are saying. However I think it would be interesting to see figures on the number of households in rent arrears and for how long. Unfortunately there are a minority (albeit a large minority) abusing this system which is giving the system a bad name. Also downsizing is very rare and needs to be enforced.
@SC: bit it shouldn’t be able to be passed on to children etc. Once the worthy recipient passes on it should be put back into the pool for the next deserving person. Not handed down to eagerly awaiting children!
@SC: as a young professional trying to save the deposit for a morgage while renting this is something i would totally be interested in
@SC: could I make one thing clear. People thinking fg want house prices just because some of them are landlords. Isn’t it safe to say that the decision makers at all levels are property owners? You don’t even have to be a landlord! Literally everyone who is involved in the system, has a vested interest in prices rising …
@GClare: “downsizing is very rare and needs to be enforced”
people like the location – have friends and family locally – may have spent their lives making the house exactly they way they like it – workshops and hobbies etc – that would be terrible thing to do to force kick old folk out of the house – or even have it expected of them to move out – because it may have a spare room or even two.
@SC: If I had a euro for every time I’ve read “Where’s my free house?” I’d have enough to pay the rent in a Dublin flat for a week.
@Fifty Shades of Sé:You Sir are a dick’
SF are the largest party on DCC they are just as responsible for the lack of housing being built there as the government
@Ian McNally: Blah blah Sinn Fein.. This lands squarely at the feet of Fianna Gael.
My council is headed by FG and they’re not building either. The loans (and they are loans not free money) borrowed by councils from central government have been suspended by the government since for a decade.
Explain how that’s Sinn Feins fault please…
@Ian McNally: Blah blah Sinn Fein.. This lands squarely at the feet of Fianna Gael.
My council is headed by FG and they’re not building either. The loans (and they are loans not free money) borrowed by councils from central government have been suspended by the government since for a decade. Explain how that’s Sinn Feins fault please.
@Ian McNally: fine Gael allocates what level of funding goes to the council. Saying “just as responsible” makes no sense
@Irish Political GIF: DCC have sold off land they should have used for housing under SF. The idea was they’d get so much money for each prime city centre site that they could buy a bigger plot of land elsewhere and build more… But then they just sold the land and didn’t build.
@Ian McNally: The housing crisis is the fault of all those who support a broken model, that puts the market economy before the people. That is, FG, FF and Labour, as they are the parties who actually had the chance to change this model. FG are the worst however, as they are ideologically wedded to this model. They, with the tacit support of Labour, allowed hedge funds to become the biggest landlords in the country and allowed them to force up rents. Now they want private property developers to solve this problem. What a ludicrous proposition!!!
@Ian McNally: The city manager has the last say on DCC. he was the one who introduced bin charges over the heads of the councellors.
@Good Early: Sinn Fein control DCC along with other left leaning parties. They have blocked a few things. It suits their agenda to have a crisis. IF they were voted in tomorrow we would be goosed
@Sean Conway: the councillors used to have the power to introduce and approve the waste management plan but this power had to be taken off them as they couldn’t agree plans in most counties, not sure about dcc though.
@Good E.arly: 2
@The next small thing: Martin cullen FF TD gave the city manager powers over councillors. read up before commenting.
@Good Early: Maby not directly but they should be shouting from the roof tops,but they would rather sit on their hands and do a wait and see,At least when Gerry Adams was leading the party he kept at the government but the present leader seems ,interested in what is going on in Northern Ireland,as the party was elected in the 26 counties thats where she should be fighting for,and if she cant see that it is time to elect a new leader
Government of the People.
For the Landlords.
Of the Landlords.
@Michael Kavanagh: let’s get rid of the landlords.
Oh wait – the private investor landlords are the ones which the government decided in 2012 should solve the social housing requirements.
Can’t have it both ways
@Paddy Downey: Cut out the middle men landlords who get their rents paid for them by people who can’t afford a mortgage. scroungers.
@Michael Kavanagh: for landlords ?? Maybe those with multiple properties. If you have the one it’s costs the landlord money and now people will say as a landlords just increase the rent . All that means is paying more tax
FFG don’t want to interfere with what’s suiting them….
@Willy Mc Caul: Maybe I’m still asleep here but, how would a rent freeze cost the state?
@ObsidianShine: Its not the freeze, its SF proposal to offer tax relief in the form of tax back to renters. Using their mentioned figure of €600 per renter it could cost as much as €500 million a year.
@Caped Crusader: Mad isn’t it? Giving back to the worker the equivalent of what the welfare Christmas bonus costs? Imagine that? Giving the worker back something. There used to be tax relief for rent years ago, mine used to be 400 a year, but Fine Gael, the filthy corrupt idiots took that away from the worker on the sly over a number of years.
@Ronan Sexton: It is mad Ronan whatever way you want to look at it. €500m is based on €600, as the article state it could be €2000 for Dublin renters. Where does the state find 6/7/800million to give back. Im a worker and yes i totally agree with helping those out who contribute most but it cant be through populous give aways that will help speed up the onset of the next crash. This money needs to come from somewhere so what would happen is the worker needs to contribute more to get the same amount back. PS i totally disagree with the welfare Christmas Bonus also.
@Caped Crusader: what makes you come to that €500 million figure?
@Ben Senior: 895k people renting accommodation as per a Savills report last Dec (obviously this will have changed slightly) x €600 rent (very low estimate) is €537 million. And that’s lowest rate, ave r age rent is now €1100 nationwide so total cost would be nearly €1 billion
@Caped Crusader: Apple
@Caped Crusader: I’ve looked into the figures too. 895k people renting is correct, but it also says that number of households is 322k. So there are 2.78 renters per household paying €469 on average each based on latest nationwide average rent of €1304 (daft report). In Dublin it’s €694 per person renting with average rent of €1875. €322k x €1304 = about €5 billion but the government only gets a percentage of this.. I have to guess maybe 30% = €1.68 billion. Based on this proposed scheme they would give back 1/12th (1 month) back which is €140m. Given that potentially a lot of this €140m will end up being spent in the local economy I can’t really see why it couldn’t be afforded. If my figures are wrong I’m open to correction.
@Ben Senior: Some good research Ben and appreciated. One point though is that the SF suggestion never mentions giving back the proportion the government receives. It says each person will receive 1 months rent in tax back. Therefore 894k people will each receive back €469 = €420 million pa.
@Caped Crusader: you’re right, that part of my calculation was wrong thanks for pointing it out
@Caped Crusader: I resume you didn`t see the part in the article where SF has said that Such measures are fully costed in this year’s budget proposals ?
Considering they are the only party who noticed Noonans massive gap of 2 BILLION in his “fiscal space”,
I would be at least prepared to listen to their breakdown of how this would be achieved.
We NEED something different and radical to help sort this mess out, this FF/FG model has put us into this hole, time to give someone else a go of taking us out of it in fairness.
@Pixie McMullen: yup I seen that and no doubt they are costed but where are they saving the extra 500mil? SF won’t reduce welfare, they’ll actually increase welfare payments, or they wont reduce services. Ergo the only way they will find 500mil to give away is to raise taxes which invariably means the middle class (those who could really use this) need to pay more to receive it back.
@Caped Crusader: Actually I think that this doesn’t affect my calculation now that I look at it again because you’re assuming the government would have gotten all of that €420 million which they wouldn’t. They’d get maybe 40% (€168 million) and probably the real figure is a lot less.
@Ben Senior: nevermind I see why this is wrong now
@Caped Crusader: which the state is paying out anyway in rents to private landlords for emergency accommodation.
@Willy Mc Caul: another ridiculous SF plan, anything for votes
All this bouncing back and forth, so much hot air. Social housing worked. It worked for decades.
Those who couldn’t afford to purchase a home, applied for social housing. Those who could afford it got a mortgage and bought their own home. Those from the country who populated the civil and public services had bedsits. Cheap, comfortable, and practical. Social housing kept the price of private housing at a realistic level.
Then we went into the era of neoliberalism. Banks got greedy, and wielded a political power they should never have had, developers also got greedy, neoliberal government championed both, never regulated either, they got out of control and the sheer naked greed collapsed both. People were crippled by the draconian austerity regime imposed, lost earnings, lost jobs, lost homes. The safety net of social services were cut or removed at this time of greatest need by people. The neoliberal government and the “i’m all right jack” brigade started the slanderous slurs and the divide and conquer tactic to maintain the status quo. Those who were never responsible for the financial mess and debts were made pay the bill.
It leaves the country today in the mess we see. The destruction and privatisation of public services. Vulture funds invited in to sustain a rotten and corrupt banking system. Given charity status as a kicker to keep them sweet.
Society is being destroyed by neoliberal greed. Those who will never see a hungry or homeless day in their lives are blaming those who are hungry and homeless, and those one pay packet away from being hungry and homeless on the problems neoliberalism created.
A general election is badly needed now more than ever. The policies being pursued by this coalition of two neoliberal parties has no mandate. Government needs this mandate from the people before things get worse, which they will if things continue as they stand.
@Dave Doyle:
I agree with 100% Dave and you are right. Remember the past at the polling booths but then forget it, no one can change it, don’t talk about blame, talk about solutions!
The disheartening aspect is that the electorate screams for action but none of the current parties can deliver a plan so sadly it’s unlikely that a GE will help!
@Dave Doyle: Maybe the government should stop selling off their stock of social houses for peanuts then.
Getting tax relief back makes the presumption that the landlord is tax compliant..
@Valthebear: three dots after your sentence is an ellipsis and is used to indicate that your sentence remains unfinished either because it doesn’t need to be said or because it is left up to the imagination of the reader. Two dots just doesn’t mean anything. It’s just an extra dot after a full stop.
The vote buying nonsense coming out of parties is very frustrating. These plans will not make anyone’s life better except for landlords and property owners.
It has been proven in other cities that price fixing does not work. It creates a distorted market, tenants are unable to move because of their old rent agreement, landlords knowing this have no incentive/need to maintain the dwellings. Buildings are refitted to be used for purposes not impacted by rent controls (i.e apartment building refurbished into offices). The first time buyer grant suggested by FF will also not work. None of these ideas work because they do not address the underlying issue, the lack of supply.
I find it a huge pity that the parties do not recognise the need to agree a cross party, multi phase strategy that would be implemented regardless of who is in government and would address this crisis with a long term vision. If we compare Ireland’s housing crisis to a sinking ship, everyone is standing around blaming each other, nobody is trying to fix the leak and the ship keeps sinking!
Sure why would Find Gael want to solve the housing crisis when most of them are benefitting greatly from it being landlords themselves and allowing vulture funds to come in? The reality is Leo and his ilk don’t give a shite about the average Irish person.
@Dainéil Ó hÍobhair: how many members of FG are landlords? This statement is thrown out all the time but I’ve never seen figures
@Dainéil Ó hÍobhair: Vulture funds are the enemies of other landlords. The fact that over half of rents are taken in taxes is stopping ordinary landlords building more homes. Tax kills social development and is in danger of funding the creation of ghettos.
@GClare: Here is an article covering that Question, dated Feb, 2017 –
One in four TDs is a landlord, the latest Dail register of interests has revealed. Of 158 deputies, 42 (26.5%) have declared themselves as landlords, with Fine Gael having the highest proportion — 18 of its 50 TDs (36%) have an income from renting out property or land.
One-third of Fianna Fail’s 45 TDs are landlords, including Stephen Donnelly, the party’s newest recruit. Only two of Sinn Fein’s 23 TDs have that status, while former environment minister Alan Kelly is the only one of seven Labour TDs to register as such.
Of the 23 independents, six are landlords, including Michael Healy-Rae, whose nine leased properties make up the largest portfolio in the Dail. In total Healy-Rae declares ownership of 16 properties, including plots of farmland…
Fine Gael – The Landlord Party.
So here we have the real reason the government is afraid to take real action to tackle this crisis: they don’t want to lose a bit of tax income. The reality is that the money people save from paying less rent will find its way back to the government coffers anyway because everything is taxed. If I have 1000 euro extra to spend, and I decide to buy a laptop, that’s already 23% they’ve gotten back. I’d prefer to see action taken that would incentivise landlords or would be landlords with a spare property to rent them out at pre-specified rates. It’s a supply issue that is dictating high rent prices so offering landlords some sort of tax incentive to lower their rents and to add properties back to the long term rental market might be a better move.
@Ben Senior: thats just talking to much sense
Putting a rent freeze in place is pointless, Rent is currently unaffordable. Freezing rent at an unaffordable rate doesn’t resolve anything,
Posh Boy Varadkar whines about supply but is ideologically opposed to increasing supply as he thinks the market will solve this humanitarian catastrophe.
The market has failed Ireland.
FFG hates Ireland.
Take Back the City have a national day of action on Saturday. Anybody with a scrap of human decency will support them.
@mursim: “… Varadkar whines about supply but is ideologically opposed to increasing supply as he thinks the market will solve this humanitarian catastrophe.”
Problem is there is an absolutely unlimited market for below value houses (social / affordable) – you have the local population, people currently living with parents and a lot from abroad that would love access to them.
Funny how many countries in the world have laws limiting increase to rented accommodation to the cost of living or to the level of inflation.
What would you expect from a toothless government? Sad too that Leo and Micheál Martin, 2 trained doctors, who are having problems coming up with or pushing for a solution to the overcrowded hospital crisis.
Getting very tired of government ministers saying that they can’t do this and can’t do that. Funny how they have no problems bringing the USC, property tax and other such laws. How about a bit of lead, follow or get out of the way?
Some people want to buy and own there own house and some people are happy to live in a social housing estate that’s way thing’s are as thing’s stand neighder is possible and never will by the look’s of things
Housing Crisis – A Referendum on Family Homes – What it would deliver :-
https://www.change.org/p/housing-crisis-referendum-on-family-homes
What a Change in the Irish Constitution would mean in practice:-
- Price reduction of €76,000 (37%) artificially added (mainly by Gov tax) to price of basic Irish House.
- Lower “Cost of Build”- root cause of supply shortage, for both private and social housing – affordable (1 income) homes for ALL citizens in Irish society into the future.
- Lower “Barrier to Entry” for small builders who could deliver 2, 4, 6, 8,10 house projects because of reduced funding requirements.
- First Refusal to Local Authorities for building land in and adjacent to urban centers at agricultural price + 25%. Support lower infrastructural costs and lower energy costs.
- No sale of mortgages to vulture funds – unlawful. Occupier gets first refusal to purchase the mortgage at knock-down price.
- No evictions by landlords on sale or upgrade of rented family homes – unlawful. – - Compensation where vacation is warranted by court, like other civilised societies.
- CPO – Compulsory purchase of Land for housing like compulsory purchase of land for road widening …. common good trumps private enrichment at the expense of the community.
- Only charge on a loan/mortgage is the asset – like US Law. You can hand back the keys – Equality of Risk Sharing between lender and borrower – No Debt ’till Death by EU Banks (legacy from 12th century serf laws).
- Mortgages based on “last selling price” + CPI (Scotland). No housing bubbles.
- No Boarded-up or vacant houses : Private or Social – unlawful
- No VAT tax on new houses like UK & NI – unfair regressive tax burden on first time buyers – unlawful. €28,000 VAT on new 3-bed semi – Obscene.
- No Part 5 €5000 tax for social housing on first time buyers – - unfair regressive tax burden on first time buyers – unlawful.
- No council levy of €10,000 on first time buyers? – unfair tax burden on first time buyers – unlawful.
- No LPT on Family Homes like Italy. Shelter is a “Life Essential”. 2-Tier LPT Tax would be unlawful (LPT on Owner Families but no LPT on families in State provided homes)
- No hoarding of land to restrict supply to inflate price of land – unlawful.
- No restricted zoning laws to restrict supply of land to inflate profits for owners – unlawful.
- No onerous non- safety building regs adding €10K recently to price of homes – unlawful.
- No ban on Bed-Sits ……… essential for some in society.
- Rent certainty .. linked to CPI
€76,000 (37%) artificially added (mainly by Gov tax) to price of basic Irish House. Obscene.
Well if Leo says it’s unworkable it must be. He’s such an expert on solving housing issues, isn’t he?
What about the thousands of students being screwed by greedy landlords every year..and it goes on and on cause there all afraid to upset the wealthy…
@Michael Mulcahy: Landlords can only charge what people are willing to pay. The issue is lack of rental properties. Too many renters chasing too few properties. If you can’t pay a given rent, someone else can and will. The only solution is getting more rental properties on stream, then demand per property will fall and with it rents. This talk of greedy landlords is silly, prices are determined by supply and demand. Simple as that.
Freezing rent at record highs is not even close to a solution. The solution is clear, build, build, build. Punish land hoarding, incentivise new projects, prioritise first time buyers. The answer to the problem of not enough homes can ONLY be…… build more homes. Interfering with the private decisions of property owners is a slippery slope.
With this proposal landlord will raise rents now in case it comes in to effect just like they did when it was in the news about the cap. Well done!! More homeless to follow.
Deregulate the private market and stop turning people away from developing and renting out property. This is taking away much needed competition from the market. FFG are about economically illiterate as SF themselves. Disgraceful leadership.
@Daniel Donovan: Wrong.
Regulate it far more stringently like they do in Germany; France; Denmark – you know countries not undergoing a housing humanitarian catastrophe.
The market is a dismal failure to the people of Ireland.
@mursim: try get a place to rent or buy in Paris or Copenhagen and you’ll know all about it. Most major cities in europe have a housing crisis at the moment. Rent caps are a disaster wherever they are.
Housing Crisis- a radical action plan is needed in the short term but for longterm social success for your kids and their great grandkids, a Referendum is required to put housing on the same foundation as in the German Constitution.
https://www.change.org/p/housing-crisis-referendum-on-family-homes
@Neuville-Kepler62F: Housing is not a right but a responsibility. It’s not the taxpayer’s job to put a roof over people’s head.
@Daniel Donovan: me thinks you misunderstand. No one is proposing that there is a right to a free house! Daft.
The German constitution contains an explicit ‘righ-to-build’ a house clause.
Also German constitutional law treats property as a derivative, or instrumental, value in the general constitutional scheme. It strongly protects a particular property interest only to the extent that the interest immediately serves other, primary constitutional values, in particular, human dignity and self-governance.
These constitutional protections for the citizen are missing from the Irish Constitution. Hence obscene housing mess. Referendum needed.
Life essentials are food, water, clothing, shelter(houses) , education, healthcare .. and few newer ones now accepted by Economists.
It is unacceptable worldwide to TAX life essentials. No one taxes food! The Irish tax “shelter” .. homes. VAT tax alone on a basic Irish House is €28,000. There is NO VAT on homes in the UK or NI or France ….. etc
This petition is about creating a sane decent society in Ireland. Ireland is a failed society with Evicted Homeless, Rack Rents and no Affordable Homes for those on the highest tax rates of 42% on €35,500 p.a ….. obscene!.
You can sign the Petition for a decent Irish Society at :-https://www.change.org/p/housing-crisis-referendum-on-family-homes
Our population is expected to increase by 1 million over the next 20 years, Brexit could see a massive increase in office workers in Dublin in next few months, a radical solution to housing and infrastructure is required now, impose commercial rates on Airbnb properties and get Airbnb to collect the money, charge rates on empty properties, give tax incentives to renovate and convert empty spaces over shops and offices into apartments, government should pay for Nationwide high speed broadband to enable more home working, build another dart line to Kildare and metro for North Dublin, ensure all cities are connected by Motor way and give tax breaks for building apartments in central locations in CBD and beside a train station or luas stop.
Free houses for all. It’s the only solution…. Except for the rich, tax them twice for being such utter b88tard8.
Surely government policy should be evidence based not just what sounds popular. The evidence shows that rent caps reduce housing supply long term and have a whole host of negative consequences.
@Damon16: Why on earth would a populist government do that. Good economics is bad politics.
Economic illiteracy again on display from SF – put in place rent freezes when the underlying problem is lack of rental properties in the market.
@Damon16: Economic illiteracy again from SF?
The ONLY party that saw Noonan`s 2 Billion gap in his “Fiscal space” , According to SF this proposal is costed in their budget proposals,
Time to give someone else a go at fixing this.
Am Sick of the likes of you dismissing anyone and everyone who comes up with an idea that doesn`t suit the FF.FG narrative, they have totally destroyed this country, almost a century of being in control of it, get them out, and keep them out,
nothing but a shower of pocket lining charlatans
Leo offering no solutions to many things. Whats the right thing to do here, will he move over and let someone else have a go? Hell No! It’s the most ignorant behaviour! If you can’t do the job, you shouldn’t be able to keep the job.
I have to say, it sickens me to call myself Irish after reading some of the comments on this post, the I’m alright Jack brigade are vocal,climb up here my friend and pull the ladder up behind you politics seems to be working, hope these people are all happy tonight asleep and warm in their own beds while their children sleep cosily in their own rooms. F%*K the people who need help, sure if we ignore them long enough they might die out,
have your say