Budget 2024

Housing: Impotent measures risk exacerbating already dire emergency

There was little in Budget 2024 to offer hope that the country’s chronic housing difficulties will ease any time soon

Budget 2024 will do little to ameliorate the significant housing challenges the country is facing. Picture: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie

Budget 2024 was a broadly disappointing event, particularly given the largely impotent measures introduced at a time when the housing sector is creeping into emergency territory.

You’d be forgiven for growing more disillusioned the longer you study the budget, for the government’s response to issues that impact the current housing crisis was vanilla at best and just had the impression of sticking their finger in the dike before the whole dam comes crashing down around ...