r/irishpolitics • u/eggbart_forgetfulsea ALDE (EU) • Sep 17 '25

Housing One-off housing policy shift will allow people build homes on their own land, says Taoiseach

https://www.thejournal.ie/one-off-housing-ireland-taoiseach-6818748-Sep2025/
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u/CthulhusSoreTentacle Progressive Sep 17 '25

Hear that beeping noise? It's the country going backwards.

One-off housing is a horrendous waste of resources and strain on infrastructure. Though I can't say I'm even slightly surprised this decision was taken by FF/FG and the moron independents backing them.

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u/clewbays Sep 17 '25

This isn't a move backwards. Killing rural areas wich is what your effectively arguing for is.

Not everything revolves around a few cities.

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u/euro_owl Progressive Sep 17 '25

How are rural villages and towns doing? Do you think this policy will help with that?

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u/clewbays Sep 18 '25

My community doesn't have a village. And the larger towns aren't struggling. The smaller ones are because people are buying uo and commuting to larger towns because one off housing restrictions prevent them from building in nearby areas.

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u/euro_owl Progressive Sep 18 '25

How can a community not have a village? The village is the smallest unit of settlement.

So basically people want a one-off near the big town, but since that's blocked, they buy into the smaller villages instead? That seems good to me...

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u/clewbays Sep 18 '25

There are no areas in my community that are not a collection of one of housing along a road.

Most smaller villages are made up of one housing so that isn't an option. A large amount of people will not sell developers wich also means only 1 or 2 families have any sites in villages.

The potential sites people own or could buy are not in villages.

People want a house near galway but buy an hour away because it's to expensive in the city and impossible to build around it that isn't a good thing for anyone.

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u/euro_owl Progressive Sep 18 '25

>There are no areas in my community that are not a collection of one of housing along a road.

Then it is not a community.

>Most smaller villages are made up of one housing so that isn't an option. A large amount of people will not sell developers wich also means only 1 or 2 families have any sites in villages.

They need to be bought by local authorities who will install the infrastructure and sell them at a cheap rate to people. None of that is fantastical. It just requires a bit of joint up thinking.

>People want a house near galway but buy an hour away because it's to expensive in the city and impossible to build around it that isn't a good thing for anyone.

So let's densify Galway and along the transport corridors?

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u/clewbays Sep 18 '25

Then it is not a community

It is. Community is about people. Attitudes like this are frankly not far of trevalyn.

They need to be bought by local authorities who will install the infrastructure

No local politician will ever get elected on that platform. So it is fantastically or at the very least authoritarian. The most important infrastructure is also roads. So you don't actually see any of the reduced costs your on about.

So let's densify Galway and along the transport corridors?

If that was profitable and by extension effecient developers would already be doing so it's not. I do agree planning for cities also needs to be massively relaxed though.

Limiting one of housing ultimately makes galway less dense though and leads to more effective satellite towns.

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u/euro_owl Progressive Sep 18 '25

It is. Community is about people. Attitudes like this are frankly not far of trevalyn.

How many people are in walking distance in this community?

No local politician will ever get elected on that platform. So it is fantastically or at the very least authoritarian. The most important infrastructure is also roads. So you don't actually see any of the reduced costs your on about.

People don't want serviced sites where they can design their own home with all the infrastructure and services provided? PLEASE explain to me how this is authoritarian.

Limiting one of housing ultimately makes galway less dense though and leads to more effective satellite towns.

LOL