Time is the critical component in house building

Talking Finance: To turn the sod on a new build, developers have to clear through a thicket of red tape

You can throw €4.5 billion at a problem and think that should solve it, but sometimes, when you consider the facts, the victory is a pyrrhic one. There are many problems that money alone can fix, but Irish housing is not one of them.

That is part of the reason why almost any policy is set to fail. The fact is that only time and immense effort can fix the issues we have, ...