Biggest problem of the housing crisis is the Department of Housing
The minister with responsibility for housing policy and delivery, Darragh O’Brien has been rightly criticised for his dismissal of one of the most important recommendations of the Housing Commission’s report, namely the establishment of a Housing Delivery Oversight Executive (“HDOE”), a body which would for a limited period mobilise and oversee what Ireland needs so […]
Democracy has not hung on such a fraying thread since the 1930s
In the year 2000, an episode of the Simpsons was broadcast entitled “Bart to the Future”, featuring Lisa Simpson becoming US president in 2016 and having to clean up the mess left by a Donald Trump presidency. In 2016, what was the stuff of comedic cartoon shows in 2000 came to pass; Donald Trump was […]
Irish people victims of campaign of concealment by Government
There are profound ethical, accountability and constitutional issues in light of the belated discovery of documents demonstrating that the Irish people were victims of a campaign of sustained concealment by their own government in the course of the referendums on the family and care. It isn’t a matter of those who opposed the referendums engaging […]
New Dublin taskforce needs to devise robust solutions for the city
The bottom is falling out of the new office property market in Dublin. Commencement notifications for new office developments have dried up. While cranes are still visible on the skyline on office developments that have commenced, the penny seems to have dropped that there just won’t be all those tenants willing to pay top-dollar rents […]
Ireland’s capacity to control migration in a sustainable way is broken
I was intrigued by a recent correspondent’s report on BBC World Service that Israeli citizens are applying as asylum seekers for international protection in Portugal. The report stated that an increasing number of Israeli citizens who were displaced by Hizbullah shelling of Northern Israel or felt threatened in Israel from the Hamas rocketry from Gaza were travelling to Portugal […]
Parents must guide how sex education is taught in schools
There has been some degree of public controversy in recent times concerning the role of schools in educating children concerning sexuality, gender identity, and the treatment of dysphoria and self-identification by children and adolescents. The whole question of gender identity among children and adolescents has become a much greater issue in the last decade than […]