Yes. Another subsidy to builders while doing nothing to ease the house price bubble.
CornerLocal6801 on
Yep
Necessary_Physics375 on
Yeah, because I’m about to buy. It will cost me upwards of half a million euro and this scheme will be no help to me what so ever
Xeamus4Toes on
Money straight into pockets of banks and developers…
The sheer, blatant, dull stupidity of the.. of the…
Who? I don’t even know at this stage. Can’t say politicians are the only ones to blame. 70% 80% of the population constantly voting these people in?
Despite the reddit bubble here, huge majority of Irish are OK with how things are..
senditup on
It’s a ridiculous idea. Simply handing the cash to every worker in the country would be better.
Storyboys on
Having 13bn in the bank, an amount of money that could really make a huge difference to infrastructure in this country, and deciding to gift it all to developers is nothing short of treasonous.
A high-speed rail and better transport, hospitals, prisons, building homes to name but a few.
People should honestly take to the streets if this money is gifted to developers.
RegularSea5536 on
We need a Help to Build course for these morons in government to get their shit together and actually build the homes we need.
DUBMAV86 on
Yes will just inflate house prices again
isabib on
Build build build, there just not enough supply at the moment.
FatheadDunne on
Isn’t the help to buy scheme a refund of income tax that you have paid yourself? As in, you only get back what you’ve paid so how does it have any bearing on the apple money?
Conscious_Handle_427 on
How does everyone know that this is a useless idea but ff/FG are pushing it anyway?
Wise_Adhesiveness746 on
Think of all the bike shelters they could get with it
ConorLyons18 on
Build a new prison and clean up the city with proper sentences. Two birds with one stone
dnc_1981 on
Yes. Straight into some developer’s pockets.
MushuFromSpace on
Yes. It should be a temporary scheme until house prices become more affordable.
Infrastructure is what’s needed but outside of building another fucking fleet of hotels they seem reluctant to do it.
RobotIcHead on
It is a bad use, it is even worse if they don’t do proper town and city planner and just expand the suburban type development endlessly.
Leavser1 on
Should be investing it in roads, water and electricity networks.
Planning for houses being refused because of deficits in all three.
Need to target large towns outside Dublin and plough the money into them
The likes of naas, newbridge, Tullamore, Mullingar Drogheda Portlaoise that are all connected to Dublin anyway by regular trains need to be targeted for development
Envinyatar20 on
Nope. What people don’t seem to understand is help to buy drives building new homes and gives preferential treatment to first time buyers making it easier for them, the younger generation, to get on the property ladder. It’s a great scheme, can give a first time buyer €100k more vs a vulture fund etc. it’s a great policy and part of why we had record numbers of first time buyers the last two years.
go_cartmozart on
Terrible idea, but many people who already own a haiouse and property developers and estate agents would love it
SmokingOctopus on
It’s pure thievery from the government on behalf of property developers. The only caveat is that we are just giving them the money ourselves.
The same thing with the rent credit, the energy credit, it’s all theft of the Irish taxpayer. We’d be better off buying back our energy companies, setting up a public construction company, or the myriad of our other public we can provide for the taxpayer instead of giving money away to ff and fg mates essential. Absolute parasites are the lot of them.
Imbecile_Jr on
Yes, yes it is
Desperate-Bus7183 on
Developers will be happy for sure, we will just have to pay more for it .
Brilliant_Walk4554 on
Pump up demand, when we have a shortage of supply!
It’s typical FF help the builders, FG help the landlords, bullshit.
Educational-Ad6369 on
Yes. Once I saw FG pushing for it go up to 40k I was like ye have list it. Old school FF stuff just trying to buy votes with something everywhere. All resources should be focused on supply. And none of them talk about investing in services to go with housing. Housing demand rises means you need more everything in that area too. Time for change
brianmmf on
Infrastructure please
portcrap on
We would be better off implementing policies designed to take the steam out of the Property market and reduce prices through supply and regulations than subsidising buying over inflated property. It’s so short sighted and ridiculous.
bimbo_bear on
Honestly just putting it in a huge pile and setting it on fire would likely have less negative impact then heating up the housing market with it.
boyga01 on
Government: “with these apple billions we are going to pump the housing market!”
Punters: “it’s the supply side you’re pumping right? Right?”
Potential-Coffee5666 on
Change government.. but eventually we will have the same folks ruling with the same mentality for the next 20 years
29 Comments
Yes. Another subsidy to builders while doing nothing to ease the house price bubble.
Yep
Yeah, because I’m about to buy. It will cost me upwards of half a million euro and this scheme will be no help to me what so ever
Money straight into pockets of banks and developers…
The sheer, blatant, dull stupidity of the.. of the…
Who? I don’t even know at this stage. Can’t say politicians are the only ones to blame. 70% 80% of the population constantly voting these people in?
Despite the reddit bubble here, huge majority of Irish are OK with how things are..
It’s a ridiculous idea. Simply handing the cash to every worker in the country would be better.
Having 13bn in the bank, an amount of money that could really make a huge difference to infrastructure in this country, and deciding to gift it all to developers is nothing short of treasonous.
A high-speed rail and better transport, hospitals, prisons, building homes to name but a few.
People should honestly take to the streets if this money is gifted to developers.
We need a Help to Build course for these morons in government to get their shit together and actually build the homes we need.
Yes will just inflate house prices again
Build build build, there just not enough supply at the moment.
Isn’t the help to buy scheme a refund of income tax that you have paid yourself? As in, you only get back what you’ve paid so how does it have any bearing on the apple money?
How does everyone know that this is a useless idea but ff/FG are pushing it anyway?
Think of all the bike shelters they could get with it
Build a new prison and clean up the city with proper sentences. Two birds with one stone
Yes. Straight into some developer’s pockets.
Yes. It should be a temporary scheme until house prices become more affordable.
Infrastructure is what’s needed but outside of building another fucking fleet of hotels they seem reluctant to do it.
It is a bad use, it is even worse if they don’t do proper town and city planner and just expand the suburban type development endlessly.
Should be investing it in roads, water and electricity networks.
Planning for houses being refused because of deficits in all three.
Need to target large towns outside Dublin and plough the money into them
The likes of naas, newbridge, Tullamore, Mullingar Drogheda Portlaoise that are all connected to Dublin anyway by regular trains need to be targeted for development
Nope. What people don’t seem to understand is help to buy drives building new homes and gives preferential treatment to first time buyers making it easier for them, the younger generation, to get on the property ladder. It’s a great scheme, can give a first time buyer €100k more vs a vulture fund etc. it’s a great policy and part of why we had record numbers of first time buyers the last two years.
Terrible idea, but many people who already own a haiouse and property developers and estate agents would love it
It’s pure thievery from the government on behalf of property developers. The only caveat is that we are just giving them the money ourselves.
The same thing with the rent credit, the energy credit, it’s all theft of the Irish taxpayer. We’d be better off buying back our energy companies, setting up a public construction company, or the myriad of our other public we can provide for the taxpayer instead of giving money away to ff and fg mates essential. Absolute parasites are the lot of them.
Yes, yes it is
Developers will be happy for sure, we will just have to pay more for it .
Pump up demand, when we have a shortage of supply!
It’s typical FF help the builders, FG help the landlords, bullshit.
Yes. Once I saw FG pushing for it go up to 40k I was like ye have list it. Old school FF stuff just trying to buy votes with something everywhere. All resources should be focused on supply. And none of them talk about investing in services to go with housing. Housing demand rises means you need more everything in that area too. Time for change
Infrastructure please
We would be better off implementing policies designed to take the steam out of the Property market and reduce prices through supply and regulations than subsidising buying over inflated property. It’s so short sighted and ridiculous.
Honestly just putting it in a huge pile and setting it on fire would likely have less negative impact then heating up the housing market with it.
Government: “with these apple billions we are going to pump the housing market!”
Punters: “it’s the supply side you’re pumping right? Right?”
Change government.. but eventually we will have the same folks ruling with the same mentality for the next 20 years