politics Calls for wider review into An Bord Pleanála following allegationsA number of allegations have been published about the board in recent weeks relating to its deputy chairman Paul Hyde
Tax Vacant property tax in doubt as Revenue reports fewer empty homes than expectedAnalysis by Revenue revealed that levels of vacancy ‘are low across all counties’, leading the Minister for Finance to assess merits and likely impact of introducing such a tax
After a 15-year wait, is electoral reform finally on the cards?The new Electoral Reform Bill constitutes the largest overhaul of Ireland’s electoral system in decades. But will it achieve its goal of strengthening Irish democracy?
Standard design brought in to speed up delivery of social housingCouncils given template layouts to expedite process, though critics say other approval hurdles also need to be removed
Builders’ register inspectors will have power to enter sites and search homesThe first ever legally required register of building contractors aims to weed out rogue operators and prevent faulty builds
Developers lodged high numbers of SHD applications just before fast-track planning scheme expiredBetween October and December 2021, a total of 65 pre-applications were made to An Bord Pleanála, compared to 33 in the same three-month period of 2020
How Ireland Inc is changing tack as Sinn Féin’s path to power opens upLobbyists for commercial interests which might have avoided contact with the party in the past are now pursuing it, anticipating it playing a lead role in the next government
Defects: Ó Broin shines a light on the fallout of Celtic Tiger Ireland’s housing folliesThe Sinn Féin spokesman on housing focuses on the misery caused to ordinary home owners by light-touch regulation and rogue developers during the free-wheeling boomtime years
Eoin Ó Broin challenges exemption that could lose government ‘10,000 affordable homes’Sinn Féin publishes bill that would roll back exemption for developers that removed the necessity for them to deliver affordable homes on private land
John Walsh: Beware of SF’s siren song of seductive promises, and look at its record insteadIf Sinn Féin gets into power and attempts to implement many of its stated policies, it will only be a matter of time before the country faces another day of reckoning
Department of Housing officials warned shared equity scheme would hike up house pricesThe comments, contained in internal documents, are likely to increase the pressure on Darragh O'Brien, the Housing Minister
Analysis: Ó Broin challenges Ryan over state funding of homes bought by cuckoo fundsThe Green Party leader did not take the Sinn Féin housing spokesman’s bait but there will be further questions if housing crisis measures do not work
Matt Cooper: Falling house of cards could take this government with itThe housing crisis hasn’t gone away, you know. It was only a matter of time until the fund-warped development model came back to bite those currently in power
Over 75% of new social homes are bought or leased from buildersBuilding of public housing by local authorities has dwindled to nearly non-existent levels in our biggest cities, official figures show
Development firm lobbies TDs over rezoning 225 acres near Citywest HotelTetrarch Capital hopes to secure one of the largest land rezonings in Dublin in years for a major housing development
Analysis: How Sinn Féin will seek to undermine LDA launch with its own unofficial website ‘Non-partisan’ site will be modelled on Nama Wine Lake project which gained a considerable following and led to questions in the Dáil
Eoin Ó Broin: We need straight answers on hike in cost of social housingThe question must be asked as to why the private sector is charging DCC €100,000 more per apartment to build than it is charging itself
Poolbeg site slipped through state fingers due to clash with council Chances of affordable homes on the 37-acre Ringsend site in Dublin are now slim, say council officials, due to high price paid by developers
Sinn Féin is an unashamedly populist party, says Ó BroinThe party’s Housing spokesperson insists that when Mary Lou McDonald or Gerry Adams rail against the elites, ‘that‘s a populist strategic manoeuvre’