Hoher Beamter zum „Wohnungszaren“ ernannt mit dem Auftrag, die Entwicklung voranzutreiben
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-planning/2026/02/10/senior-civil-servant-set-to-be-appointed-housing-tsar-with-brief-to-speed-up-development/
Von NotAnotherOne2024
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Ask anyone working in the industry and they will tell you that there are just not enough resources available to speed things up. No amount of money can quickly change the number of builders, electricians, plumbers etc that there are in the country and no amount of cut corners on planning permission can significantly increase the housing numbers.
The solution to this is infrastructure and that takes time. Years if not decades.
All this will do is throw more tax payers money at a worthless role while increasing the chances of flawed and broken houses being made with no amenities available nearby.
Does he have the magic wand to hire more workers?…
His job title should be ‚FFG Human Sacrifice‘.
We need another to shift the blame to when nothing is done. The Tsar can blame the housing minister, and visa versa so everyone has an out
Is there any problem that cannot be solved with the appointment of a well paid tsar?
I thought we already have a Minister for Housing for that……
🤣
Incredibly underwhelming appointment and implementation of the role overall.
PfG originally had this role sat in the Department of the Taoiseach with overreaching power over the minister and reporting directly to the Taoiseach.
What we’ve ended up with is a watered down deputy secretary general position then add to that the McDonagh debacle surrounding his proposed appointment.
Now the grand appointee “who’s going to kick down doors” in the Ministers own words, is a Transport and Courts civil servant veteran with no housing delivery experience and no true authority. The position in essence is being a well paid punching bag.
Thats correct in that where be the land the builders and the materials. Cost are high and only will get higher if there’s a push on production assuming you can say get builders from the UK or poland etc where there are in demand there too. Pay them more. Costs go up etc.
Need facilties also. Or crime will quickly follow with board gangs. No shops. No GPs.
Then there is flooding.
The list go on. Accelerating can be done. But a tens of billion euro plan is needed
My solution take the metro money and spend it on housing.
Now we just need a transport tsar and all our problems will vanish!
Housing rasputin
Wtf is up with “tsar”?
Prepare for absolutely fuck all to come of this other than his pockets being lined. Why can we find money for everything else? If the crowd in the Dail are not corrupt then they are extremely mentally challenged.
Well i will phone my son and tell him to come home from Australia, the housing debacle is solved.
Nonsense
How many Tsars has this been now?
The building trade is a mugs game. New House building is full of first year apprentices who jack it in after a year because they only have work when the sites are open.
Any decent tradesman is doing commercial work in the likes of data centres and children’s hospitals or Intel. It’s more likely to be unionised, safer, pays better and you get your pension contributions. 4 years apprenticeship does not make a good tradesman. Dropping your son off at a site because he couldn’t get into college to do his accountancy degree doesn’t make a good tradesman.
If a company in the building trade has a HR person its probably the bosses brother. You are likely to have to track somebody to his house or local pub to get wages at times. You may get told you are only needed 2 days on any given week. It’s freezing and wet and if you have a canteen to ear your lunch it’s a filthy prefab, if you don’t you eat it on a windowsill or wall in the rain.
The whole industry needs to end the culture of multiple subbies subbing out work to multiple subbies. This causes the apprentices in the good companies to only learn how to induct and manage subbies and the apprentices in the subby companies get shafted.
I worked for about a year with my first company and found out I wasn’t actually a registered apprentice, then between being in and out of work it took about 8 years to get qualified. Then the celtic tiger collapsed and I was on jobbridge. Thats the reality of the building trade.
Ah, the designated sin-eater
We got a housing tsar when what we need is a housing lenin
So I take it we will be saving money by putting him in charge of the department of housing and sacking the minister and sec general of the department who now have nothing to do. Nope. Didn’t think so in this Jobs for the boys republic.
The words “Senior Civil Servant” and “speed up” should never be in the same sentence …..
„tsar“ could these people be anymore fucking unaware? yeah that’s what we need right now, hints of Russian autocartic rule.
Did the Dept. of Housing not already have Assistant Secretaries (not to mention a Sec. Gen and a Minister).
Pointless.
We have more Tsars than Russia now I’d say 🙈
I disconnected from politics for a while as it was sending me into a rage spiral…
Why tf are we using the Tsar title in Ireland in 2026. What have I missed.
Not exactly a promising start for the Housing Activation Office when their first pick all the way back in April 2025 had to withdraw his application due to dangerous levels of „Jobs For The Boys“ regarding his salary and practically the whole process of him being selected.
Now we’ve finally got another candidate ten months later, but he’s from the Department of Transport. That’s not to say that the skills aren’t transferable. However, isn’t the Department of Transport *also* struggling to both upgrade existing transport infrastructure as well as develop new transport links? I’m not going to pretend that I have the foggiest idea of how the authorisation and completion of either housing or transport infrastructure works, but wouldn’t we want Garret Doocey to fix the problems where he is first before moving him elsewhere?