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John Walsh: Housing crisis is poised to deepen as supply of funding is increasingly constrained

With public sector debt at €240 billion, private sector funding limited, developers facing eroding profits and institutional investment on the wane, where is the money for building new homes going to come from?

It is somewhat ironic that those calling for a national construction company also excoriate the state for its failure in almost every other area of the economy and society

In a move that surprised nobody, Paul Murphy, the People Before Profit TD, called for the nationalisation of Twitter in the wake of Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover of the social media platform.

Rather unhelpfully, Murphy did not provide a legal pathway as to how the Irish government could nationalise a company headquartered in another jurisdiction – or, more importantly, how Musk would be compensated. After all, he had just paid $44 billion for Twitter; presumably ...