Stephen Kinsella on Ireland’s generation game

Handwringing on the housing crisis is hypocrisy if you rush to object to every development that might hit the value of your own home

Stephen Kinsella: ‘Not saying things when they are important is the root of many of our probems as a society’ Picture: Clare Keogh

It’s unspoken. Make a list of the problems Ireland has today. Homelessness, housing shortages, health systems creaking at the seams, unbalanced regional development, a large part of the previous generation having emigrated.

Now think about possible solutions to some of those problems. You address the growing problem of homelessness by putting in place measures to solve the complex interconnections between mental health and poverty, by building more houses using taxpayers’ money to house ...