Comment: ‘New land tax could push up the price of Irish homes’

While there is much that is opaque about housing policy, one issue on which there would appear to be unanimous agreement is that more homes need to be built. I doubt that anyone would disagree that housing policy is a ball always on the pitch in our adversarial system of political debate.

There is a serious question mark hanging over how housing policy is actually formed. We know the theory. Civil servants and advisers of ...