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Trying to "do good, do right & serve others," create a few jobs & a better, more sustainable society in the process! All Views My Own. Dal Cais tribe.

Dungarvan, Waterford, Ireland
Joined March 2009
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
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Rob Cass ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ
3 years
We're worst in Europe at greenhouse emissions per person. We could be the best and must be the best for a better, more balanced & fairer world for all.
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3 years
To understand housing, understand land profiteering made in housing. You can buy 65 acres in Waterford/Kilkenny for 2m. Then get it zoned. Then get it through planning. Then sell it with planning to developers/REIT's for 38m. Gross Profit; 36m in 4 years. Adds 48k to home price.
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3 years
Looks to be about 193k doses taken by non-frontline/HSE ahead of 130k 70 plus who are waiting across Ireland for vaccines. Or, nearly 1 in 4 vaccines have been taken ahead of cohorts. That's criminal that such a culture exists in HSE and a Vaxx team who are clearly not in control
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4 years
If you are one of the 480,000 on PuP, you might want to ask your TDโ€™s this question; hospital capacity is now at only 25% and dropping. 1m vaxxed by end March sees 90% reduction in hospitalisation. โ€˜Why are we not planning to be opening for mid -April, and fully by June?โ€™
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5 years
A stunning photo of snow & surf in the South Eastโ€™s Tramore by Noel Browne. Where else in Ireland do you have mountains and surf within 20 minutes offering an amazing quality & affordable way of life in a very safe country? Things we take for granted..!
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3 years
Good news; Peak Omicron is already over in South Africa. No restrictions were brought in. Hospitalisation rate 50% lower. Stay in hospitals were 80% shorter & like Ireland, many cases came from in hospital. Ireland has low case growth & increasing hospital capacity; worst is over
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Nationally, South Africa ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ has also passed the peak of its #Omicron driven #4thWave ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฝ A steeper wave but significantly shorter; about half the number of days to reach the peak compared with previous waves in South Africa #COVID19 #OmicronVariant
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4 years
Looks like Northern Ireland will have 90% vaccinated by St Patricks day at current rate; fully open in a month. Awesome stuff. Meanwhile. Donnelly Dithers. HSE falter. Healthboards nowhere to be seen hunkering down. And re-opening plan absent with no sourcing of Sputnik or Sino.
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2 years
I was an "economic migrant" seeking better opportunities than I'd have had in Ireland, in London, Manchester, South Africa, Dubai, Saudi, Denmark, Holland, I never had racist protesters outside where I landed in these countries & towns. We've to help everyone, as all are equal.
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2 years
About 70 people are protesting this evening outside St Josephโ€™s Convent in Fermoy following the arrival last night of 63 International Protection applicants - 19 families, including 25 children, and eight single females. #Cork
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1 year
Have I got that right; Swiss government just forced a merger resulting in $6bn loss to equity & & โ‚ฌ18bn debt shareholders of a bank for โ€˜the greater good of banking system?โ€™ Just shows the mistake the FGFF cost the Irish taxpayers in bailing out the cowboys back in 08/09. โ‚ฌ40bn
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4 years
Waterford is now the closest English speaking city to the EU, with Waterford airport, Waterford Port & Rosslare the closest airport & ports to the EU. Time to start boosting trade in 2021!
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2 years
So if TD T is making the guts of โ‚ฌ2-3m increase in wealth over 3 years in just property alone, how many other A-Z TDโ€™s, Senators and Councillors are making such wealth through access to info, and none of it disclosed, how do the 600,000 young unable to get homes not get same?
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3 years
For 1-2 entries to ICU a week, set against 300k vaccines a week, the government are going to keep hospitalities 250,000 jobs out of work & cost trade another 200m a week in losses to add to the over 60 weeks of lost trade to date; the longest in EU. Thatโ€™s not risk; thatโ€™s mad.
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3 years
There is now NOT ONE home for rent in Dungarvan. A town of 10,000. A Booming. How do businesses bring in talent to expand? Nope. Moving home? Nope. Yet weโ€™ve over 400 vacant homes/above the shop. Who paid no levies last year. And 700 young above 18 -49 living in bedrooms at home
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3 years
Italy & other EU countries fund 100% of retrofit energy upgrades, in advance, upfront. Easy. Merrion St; "only 50%, paperwork, select suppliers, potential 2 year delay & pay energy consultants up front." Design to fail by civil servants and then wonder why we have poor take up!
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3 years
โ‚ฌ160bn into roads. Wonโ€™t save โ€˜townsโ€™. As the towns are vacant due to lack of young people living in them and vacant homes / businesses. No point having fancy motorways; instead the priority has to be putting money into making towns vibrant through WFH grants & regen of vacant.
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1 year
Germany can build new social homes for โ‚ฌ180k-190k, Dublin councillors & taxpayers? โ‚ฌ450k-500k apartments. Obviously someone is making a lot of money and course taxpayers happy to pay with no challenge to #โ€™s, with councillors signing off 10โ€™s of millions per county overspends
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social housing in muenster... 65 homes in (5) buildings - all of them point access blocks. units of various sizes. light on multiple sides. open space. nice project by 3pass architekten. if โ‚ฌ9.5M cost is correct - these are ~$180k/home (incl. garage)
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2 years
There are now NO homes to rent in 10,000 town of Dungarvan. No space for job hires to move into. No homes for retail & tourism talent. There's only 13 homes being built a quarter (& govt target missed by 35%), there's 528 vacant & there's 1,000 young @ home waiting 4 homes.
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3 years
Want to see opportunity in vacant regeneration in your town or communities? Given rampant price inflation & Dept of finance BS of โ€˜it will take yrsโ€™ to map, hereโ€™s a map that took weeks. share widely, as with 15% price growth today, vacant is oft quicker.
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So this NPHET data on socializing, which is now 85% inaccurate, that lead to delay on Summer re-opening, which cost businesses โ‚ฌ1bn in trade, alongside Failte failing with โ€˜guidelines that went beyond legalโ€™ shows itโ€™s a complete mess made by state bodies
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3 years
3 bed newbuild homes for โ‚ฌ200k, completed in Carlow via Council/AHB. 470,000 young @ home might ask TD's "how come newhomes are โ‚ฌ350k & taxpayers paying developers/land owners โ‚ฌ100-150k a home extra in Waterford/Dublin/Galway/Cork?" @killianwoods
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4 years
Big day for the parish...
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2 years
โ€˜Cost of materials are rising.โ€™ Nope. CRH down 30% since start of year. Kingspan down. Iron ore (steel) back to 21 prices. Timber back to 21 prices. Govt needs to start buying up vacant than newbuilds until the prices flow through. Or welcome in large EU companies to build homes.
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#DerelictIreland day 2 of Dungarvanโ€™s 500 vacant homes. Housing crisis? 2 minutes walk to town centre of Dungarvan. Former Fine Gael TD John Deasyโ€™s office has been vacant for 5 years. Next to it; a stunning stonework example of what it could be like if it had been regenerated.
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Great day for parishes in Waterford & South East! Governmentโ€™s infrastructure spend unlocks a brighter future for the city & regionโ€™s communities. Full funding secured. Well done to those who made it happen; Iโ€™m proud to have played a part in making this little bit of history
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The Government has confirmed over โ‚ฌ110 million in funding for the Waterford North Quay regeneration project - โ‚ฌ80.6 million from the Department of Housing and โ‚ฌ30 million from Transport @rtenews
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@wereontheditch No vacant tax collected? Paschal said there was no benefit to collecting vacant tax yet thereโ€™s 15bn long term vacant. Which would have raised โ‚ฌ1bn a yr in taxes. Which is the first thing a Board on regen would address; utilise vacant & use taxes to fund regen. Not newbuildโ€ฆ
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You can buy vacant homes in Italy for โ‚ฌ1 as policy from Municipality, with the Municipality helping you get loans to regenerate towns. Meanwhile in Ireland, Vacant homes from both Councils & Dept "vacant strategy" has delivered no such actions since 2018.
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ICU capacity going to zero. Thereโ€™s no 4th wave. Thereโ€™s no reason to be shut with over 1m vaccines a month being done. Thereโ€™s a cost of โ‚ฌ2bn each month of lockdown. Open up the regions and start with villages, then towns, then cities, then Dublin. Week by week. Stop the fear.
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@EmmaQuinlan On this occasion, having met him, I disagree. And having been on the end of decisions he has made on finance plus towns to turn down many benefits that align with EU, heโ€™s a master of spin.
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NPHET trolling rapid tests undermining EU guidance on rapid tests. With no data from NPHET why the other 400m in EU are wrong, but NPHET are right with a lockdown that has no data or assumptions behind it. Theyโ€™ve lost the majority of the country but govt wonโ€™t reign them in
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Can I get some snake oil with that? It makes for a great salad dressing with a pinch of salt and something acerbic. Stay safe when socialising outdoors over the next few weeks. Small numbers, distance, masks. These antigen tests will not keep you safe.
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@higginsdavidw David. Thereโ€™s 650,000 tennis balls (young living at home) & 150,000 new tennis balls (Ukraine) & 70,000 new tennis balls (jobs) all trying to find glasses. Should be 63,000 free glasses (daft / for rent: 3% of stock ). Thereโ€™s Not. Thereโ€™s also 72,000 glasses vacant 6-12 yrs.
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@_sesn_ Great pushback on a politician trying to take a selfie for their promotion when clearly not actioning climate. More people do this and weโ€™ll be in good shape for the future
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@irish_railways โ€˜This downfall was kindly brought to you by tar, cement & road lobbyists, with the kind support of FFFG and economists focused on short term budgets rather than long-term community enrichment.โ€™
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3 years
Paid twice by taxpayers to pay finance funds 20 -25 years guaranteed income, guaranteed rises and at the end, the fund, not the taxpayer, owns the asset. Sheer Noonanomics. Regenerate the existing vacant homes. Allow young to own via tax breaks. Stop paying developers 165k profit
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Ciarรกn - Crazy House Prices
3 years
Think about this. Taxpayers paid to build houses, which were sold by individuals to investment funds, who now lease them BACK to the state at taxpayer's expense. Absolute insanity. Paying for the same home multiple times, all to give profit to private funds & no asset at the end.
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3 years
Pubs and restaurants in Uk open on Monday on back of vaxx programme plus a โ€˜data & datesโ€™ driven government. Meanwhile, we have no fun NPHET, no recovery plan and no data or dates based on science or trade off. How long before the young leave the country & taxes begin to rise?
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@SarahAMcInerney Thereโ€™s 200,000 women who canโ€™t afford EUโ€™s most expensive childcare & now rent, so theyโ€™re forced to not work & โ€˜keptโ€™ at home to clean dishes. If this was 200,000 men or farmers or construction lobbyists, the policies would be changed โ€˜PDQโ€™ and TDโ€™s screaming for action. Sexism
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Norway is already 80% lower build emissions per m2 than Ireland. Now they are going 80% lower again. Amazing. Meanwhile in Ireland, no reductions mandated in law by council & departments. A love of concrete a root cause of high carbon & cost
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3 years
As a sense check; NPHET are forecasting more cases in the next three months than the whole of the pandemic; 300,000. Which means with 3m vaccines extra, 1 in 10 will get Covid & 2% hospitalized. In the US it is 0.002%. NPHET saying 950 times higher has huge impact. Itโ€™s Wrong.
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4 years
Iโ€™m fortunate to be on Pat Kenny / Newstalk tomorrow at about 10:15 Am talking about North Quays progress/6,900 jobs / regional regeneration and 5 things we can do to not just stop a recession, but make our communities thrive & grow in a post-Covid world. Lotโ€™s of positives ahead
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3 years
@rtenews @MichealMartinTD No. Just no. 99% vaccinated. Weโ€™ve done our part. Sort out HSE. Sort out capacity in regional hospitals that havenโ€™t had the investment in people or beds as 70% less staff per person than Dublin in many. 20 months to Sort out 20% vacancy in frontline. Health holding back society
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3 years
2. Remember; the state is THE largest land owner. So, if the state builds, it could sell NOT at market value, but at COST of the land, which is 2.5k per home (as ultimately the state doesn't care about profit, explicitly, but social outcomes). Doing so would save 45k a home.
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4 years
The Independent continuing itโ€™s drivel this AM; โ€˜previous government did exceptionally well.โ€™ Housing crisis. Health crisis. Climate crisis worst in EU. 600,000 homes in fuel poverty. Cuts to mental health. Cuts to arts. Direct provision disaster. Thatโ€™s Far from โ€˜exceptional.โ€™
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4 years
Celebrating a bright future for the South east after years of hard work. Thanks to everyone who helped get to this stage; now the real work of making better futures a reality kicks in. Thanks to the brother @CassCoDungarvan for the lovely celebration gift. Donโ€™t stop believing.
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This isnโ€™t a plan. Itโ€™s a wishlist. Thereโ€™s no finance. No delivery resource. No timeline. Why do we in Ireland allow these documents to be published and no one says โ€˜wait, whereโ€™s the rollout & delivery mechanism & timeline.โ€™ Itโ€™s emperors clothes dillusion & loses trust
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A plan to transform the rail system on the island of Ireland through electrification, additional track capacity, increased speeds and more frequent services is to be published
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3 years
@idahocafe @GeorgeLeeRTE Pubs and so on?? Whatโ€™s the facts behind this? Cases are declining. Hospitalisation declining. Cork had a โ€˜whoppingโ€™ 16 new cases in the whole 500k county yesterday. Maybe focus on why the vaccines rollout is slow. And thereโ€™s 3.5m living in counties with less than 100 cases/week
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4 years
Covid vaccination. The UK put a women running the vaccination Programme who was a venture capitalist who understood the market, supply chain & contracts. Ireland put an old retired university person with no experience of running programmes of urgency. Says a lot. @patphelan
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3 years
2. It rises to more than 250k non-frontline if frontline was priority. Which is way more than HSE staff. Itโ€™s 1 in 16 people in the country have queue jumped ahead of the 250k elderly & most vulnerable. Are TDโ€™s & HSE families involved? โ€˜All in this together/a little bit more?โ€™
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6 years
World-class Children's hospital in Finland built for โ‚ฌ170m. Guessing the Irish Children's Board looked at this to ask 'why are our beds 425% more expensive, per bed?' @paulodonoghue93
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1 year
This is a lie. Why does RTE allow lies? The supply is planned to drop to 2028. To the lowest in the EU. Thereโ€™s no โ€˜turningโ€™. All parties councillors voted for min 30% price increases to 2028. Itโ€™s the longest ever for young to get a home and the plans are to make it longer.
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1 year
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that he believes that the housing crisis is on the "cusp of changing" with house prices starting to level off or fall |
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2 years
That will explain why thereโ€™s a lot of long term vacant and derelict and why the Dept of finance didnโ€™t want to collect over โ‚ฌ1bn a yr of vacant tax on the โ‚ฌ20bn long term & very long term vacant. โ€˜Boards with vested interestsโ€™ rather than EU practices of tax and regenerate.
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Michael Stone was appointed to chair an inner-city regeneration board despite hoarding development sites in Paschal Donohoeโ€™s constituency. Stone twice received planning permission โ€“ which wasn't used โ€“ for developments on the derelict site.
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2 years
What exactly does the TV license pay for at RTE? No GAA club sports coverage. No six nations. No Cheltenham? Very little children or creative / native content.
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2 years
@wereontheditch @crazyhouseprice Simon Coveneys Cork sailing friend. Coveney appointed him and then increased his salary by 40%. Then rebuilding Ireland didnโ€™t deliver and missed all targets for years, with one factor being? An Bord Plaenala slowness on process. Which the chairman has oversight for.
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#DerelictIreland 3 bed vacant home for 14 years; never lived in. One of the 384 homes (77m) around Dungarvan. There are 2 families I know moving out of town due to โ€˜no supply.โ€™ Nothing in county development plan by Council or Councillors or TDโ€™s for 878 living at home to fix it
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Council execs across country now will be going โ€˜uh ohโ€™ for all the nonsense they hide and all the old silly councillors they bully will be circling the wagons. The sooner ALL documents & contracts & appraisals are published the sooner councils cleaned up. Possible in digital age
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Limerick City and County Council failed to release to us, under FOI, the minutes for the meeting at which Niall Collins voted to dispose of council land. After repeated phone calls, emails and finally a suggestion The Ditch boys attend their offices, the council had to relent.
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@Tearene @gerardsullivan @BBCPolitics @CllrKRedmond @spikedonline We prospered under EU since joining to become one of the wealthiest in the world. Our productivity per person is one of the highest in the world from our talent; that plus our ability to get things done and not moan about it is why we're chosen. We aren't stupid; we value the EU
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3 years
5. As @RoryHearne points out, the housing crisis is endemic and until land flipping is reduced through the state becoming THE developer from start to finish on their own land and own homes, the dysfunctional market wonโ€™t end the crisis as it pays to simply sit on land.
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Good news 4 Waterford & South East; all financing for construction is now in place for North Quays on our side. Start Dec 20. Finish Dec 24. All now down to government & council to deliver by end Oct. Even better news; further US investment in South East jobs coming @LeoVaradkar
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Iโ€™m needing some tech help. Weโ€™re going to build a Waterford city Covid dashboard for city businesses to minimise any dips in trade & job losses for our community. Thereโ€™s lots of ways we can do this. Help us build a better city & not let Corona beat us. Please tag or retweet.
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1 year
More cluelessness from DoE & CRU. Setting highest renewable energy prices by listening to lobbyists? 3-5 times more expensive than Scotland & Europe? That gets people fired for incompetence in private sector. Root cause of high energy prices; incompetence
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@CillianDeGascun Just start using antigens in schools and Uni as a tool. Stop the arrogance towards it. NPHET was wrong. All big employers use it.
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@ciaranmcasey Ah stop. That kind of comparison & Density would give sprawl loving councils and planners a head freeze.
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4 years
Anyone else thinking of flying to Dubai/Hungary/Northern Ireland/Bahrain/Israel simply to get vaccinated given the mess HSE & Government are making of this.
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Sshh...It's beginning to look a lot like "it's happening..." Made lists. Checked twice...Santa seems to be bringing the best city centre in Ireland for all our communities to have a great decade ahead.
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3 years
A 10% levy on โ‚ฌ1bn vacant homes in Cork is cโ‚ฌ100m. That can fund some of the โ‚ฌ400m yacht event. For the rest of the country, use the 10% on 18bn vacant is a 1.8bn fund for regen vacant & communities fund, match with credit union funds of mortgages. โ‚ฌ3.6bn is 14k โ‚ฌ250k homes
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4 years
So in the last week, Uber acquires Waterfordโ€™s Routematch, Nearform helps Covid tracing around the world & now, Cabinet set to approve North Quays funding in September. If only the All Ireland hurling finals were on. Mighty hurling by all involved.
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@McConalogue So are you stopping live exports or just โ€˜going to do nothingโ€™? It was government policy to increase exports. Reverse exports and cows to 2015 levels and then letโ€™s see how credible Govt is. Cork Martโ€™s and other are simply intermediaries so reduce or ban live exports & โ‚ฌ for it
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3 years
With over 350k vaccine stock on hand today, thereโ€™s no reason why doses are down at 18k a day average today & only rising slowly. It has to be 46k a day to meet June target. Every day, 26k not dosed is a town each day staying shut due to the slow rollout. โ‚ฌ80m a day cost.
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@michaelmina_lab @President_MU It would be awesome to have you, Michael, on our national radio on this matter. We need challenge as to why Ireland is EUโ€™s longest lockdown & 3rd lowest cases per capita, but still wonโ€™t use mass testing as a tool to allow re-opening give itโ€™s use elsewhere @kierancuddihy
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In what is currently largest regeneration project in the country, it shows potential regional cities & regions have when vision is combined with collaboration between public & private to lift a whole city & regionโ€™s communities hope & trust @LeoVaradkar .
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5 years
How amazing is this; weโ€™ve Irish Rail confirm a 60 minute train Waterford to Dublin. We got planning on a bridge to connect oldest city to newest, biggest sustainable regeneration in Ireland. Itโ€™s amazing to see people work together to change history for better of communities.
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Rob Cass ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ
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With @DarraghOBrienTD coming to announce North Quays funding on Tuesday, weโ€™re delighted to announce that in addition to North Quays, weโ€™ve secured finance to develop over 800 new sustainable homes in Waterford in 3 years. We deliver over โ‚ฌ645m Private investment over next 4 yrs
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3. That 48k then is added to the mortgage for the bank to make c40% profit on through the lifecycle of the mortgage; about 20k. So on a 25 year mortgage, that's 800 a year gifted to the bank that state/councils could save & see that spend in towns/high streets, rather than debt.
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Only 4% of vacant levy collected with โ‚ฌ1.5m uncollected. But wait; 1600 homes not added at all to list because โ€˜once added to the vacant site, the levy (tax) has to be collected.โ€™ Well yes. 1600 additional vacant homes would mean โ‚ฌ30m a yr taxes. Uncollected. For 6 -12 yrs. SFJ
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@MichealMartinTD Call it as it is; 1. racism, as if BLM did this, army would have shot & killed. 2. He didnโ€™t drain the swamp; he increased it. Itโ€™s not democracy. Impeach him. Imprison him. Trump isnโ€™t welcome in Ireland and I hope that many Irish around the world reject racism & inciting hate.
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4 years
Hat tip to the legends that are Waterford Whispers for being the first to go for their โ€˜global News & Media HQโ€™ on North Quays. We have the best satire in Ireland already, and great to see them ready to relocate to Waterford & South East. First of many...
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4 years
So this time next week I will be celebrating getting planning and getting a superb team absolutely hammered for their immense, hard work. They made the impossible, possible. Now for the small matter of funding to allow us get going..โ€™crane for Christmas?โ€™ Over to govt & TDโ€™s now!
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3 years
No spike in cases or hospitalisation despite the fear of Dublin street parties. Or Lockdown easing. Or leaving finishing. Or โ€˜deltaโ€™. Near zero in hospitals driven by 300k vaccines a week and rising
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3 years
@AddressingLife @KevDoyle_Indo @catherine_fegan There's over 100k doses stolen from the most vulnerable. It's been going on since early Feb. The HSE Ops / COO knew as they oversee all process. Imagine the 100k elderly who were pushed down the list? That Reid denied it was happening? Imagine this is the culture in 100k people?
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โ‚ฌ112 billion available for biodiversity from EU for landowners. That would be โ‚ฌ2bn to Irish landowners, or more, given the higher emissions. Not quite the poor mouthing that TDโ€™s in the pockets of lobbyists come out with. Thatโ€™s โ‚ฌ200m 4 south east.
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4 years
@FineGael @RichardbrutonTD Jesus, Richard is going for โ€˜Irelandโ€™s Fittest Politician.โ€™ Well done. Great idea to promote local tourism and hope our TDโ€™s get on their bikes and promote โ€˜shop & stay local this summerโ€™ to save the retail & tourism SMEโ€™s that are really the heart of the community.
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4 years
Good news; all 298 apartments have been pre-sold to US Community developer on North Quays, bringing a new low rent model to Ireland, with developer keen to roll out model to each city. All thatโ€™s needed is Cabinet funding green light @LeoVaradkar @DarraghOBrienTD @MaryButlerTD
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This happens (vacancy) when towns & trades donโ€™t have access to credit to grow, finance energy. chambers in most towns of ex bankers or marketeers simply donโ€™t understand SME trade or pander to council: credit to SMEโ€™s cut โ‚ฌ60bn a year has hollowed towns.
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1 year
1.2m young have emigrated, with the rate of emigration doubling in the last 10 yrs, as the housing supply has slowed to lowest in western Europe. When there's no young, there's lower unemployment %. Then ignoring the 200,000 women "kept" at home due to Childcare costs helps #'s
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Ireland at or near full employment. This isn't an accident but the result of a strong, effective economic strategy by Government's over the past decade.
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2 years
HSE gets none of its energy from renewables. Yet every hospital has a roof. Every carehome. @DonnellyStephen it seems the DOH / HSE priority is do nothing and let taxpayer pay for lack of public sector leadership on energy / climate.
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This stadium in the Netherlands has 4,200 #solarpanels on its roof and is 100% #solar powered. Shouldn't all buildings be this way? We have the solutions. Demand your govt implement them. #ActOnClimate #climateemergency #climatecrisis #climate #energy #renewables #GreenNewDeal
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4 years
Very exciting plans on Waterford South Quays; greenway, parks, O'Connell St. Quays sides are set to become two of most attractive not just in Ireland, but Europe. Superb quality of living. Wise money & brains will move now before it starts. Check out @WaterfordNS this week.
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$50m investment into Waterford coming from US. โ‚ฌ20m from UK. Amazing what can be achieved when right team communicate right wat. And huge appetite for the apartments of North Quays which was the one thing Dublin Real Estate agents said โ€˜would fail.โ€™ Not a clue lads...not.a.clue.
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4. So from start to exit (home build), a land owner is making 20 fold gross profit in c3-4 years. Thatโ€™s one of key reasons of greed driving the housing crisis; itโ€™s gambling and big money required for big (unhealthy) returns on low risk (risk of homes not needed is low.)
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Big scalp from the Ditch and big fail from those who didnโ€™t pick this up. Coveneyโ€™s friend/appointment jailed. Former An Bord Pleanรกla deputy chair Paul Hyde jailed for two months. No wonder the property ownership register isnโ€™t digital. More to come.
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@gavreilly @ciananbrennan Hmm. Minutes from a council meeting sourced by the Ditch following stonewall by Limerick Exec seem to show presence at meeting in Jan 07. Contradicting his statement. And the 15 years vacant tax unpaid is another matter. But just as important. Both instances break the law.
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@crazyhouseprice Sligo has high vacancy, low newbuild rate and obviously assumes as per all county plans thereโ€™s no demand/housing need from 18-34โ€™s. The students ought to be emailing councillors going WTF and getting on radio as itโ€™s 47 years to get a home in Sligo for 8858 people not in plans
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13. To know when you buy a home; land is 10% of the price (pushed up by all the Profits), developer profit is 20-30%, construction 10%. VAT -13.5% (ie inflates price and doesnโ€™t apply in NI), finance costs 7-12%. So if the state is told to build by voters, it saves 50%. Vote it.
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@FergalBowers This is what other countries are doing for some time. It means we can re-open. Tests are โ‚ฌ4 FOB, rather than keep people out of work. Maybe the whole restaurant sector says โ€˜test and enterโ€™ rather than stay closed for June & July? @mistereatgalway @paulflynnchef Iโ€™ve kits
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@berkieahern2 @davidmcw Thatโ€™s HSE / DoH/NPHET inability to plan & execute. There are 100,000 healthcare practitioners (GPโ€™s/nurses/pharmacists). Zero targets for vaccination per 100k. Thereโ€™s what, 5% over 60 in population so 250,000, which means 5 days to open up and that saves 15bn to the economy.
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5 years
Waterford Council propose free public transport model pilot for the city. Watch city grow. This is leadership in action for us to get behind and make a better city thatโ€™s a model for Ireland. Well done! Next; we offer EVโ€™s for all public sector talent. Nurses. Teachers. Council.
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Many thanks to my fellow @WaterfordCounci Cllrs for supporting motion by Cllr Murphy & I to request Minister #Transport examine a National Pilot Project for #Waterford on #free #publictransport model to incentivise use above 1.9% & mitigate global warming carbon issues ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ‘
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6. false argument that state doesnโ€™t have capability; the state, with the right capability / people can unlock direct build. It can do modular. It must also intervene in the market until the market is stable; itโ€™s not stable nor functional. Until state does, the crisis goes on
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@Michael_O_Regan If you are 90% inaccurate in models, you get fired. If you have 250,000 jobs depending on it, it needs scrutiny. There wonโ€™t be 7000 cases a day due to vaccines being 100 times higher, and working. There werenโ€™t 5,000 a day as forecast in Mar-June there were 500. Itโ€™s scandalous.
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2 years
Isnโ€™t it great the way some councils pick up the phone to their favourite property owners in selective way, then give them contracts & โ‚ฌ, that never go to tender, whilst others go unaware or get no response. Meanwhile Councillors & taxpayers have no clue. Transparency? Mehole
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Ireland's missing youth: about 260,000 more young (25-34's) are missing from population than previous decade. Driver? Home ownership. 6% (-50%). Which then leads to higher age of children. About โ‚ฌ30bn loss in wealth vs old. Action? None in housing plans to 28 from councillors.
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2 years
Great work by @frank_oconnor & @judesherry . Tried to do this for Dungarvan by uploading some of the 500 vacant in town to house 1,000 people & was told by Councilโ€™s vacancy officer โ€˜not our responsibility to manage vacancy or respond or use the govt website @VacanthomesIRL .โ€™
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Campaigners ( @judesherry @frank_oconnor ) identify 700 derelict properties in Corkย  ๐ŸšFigure is more than seven times the official figure on Cork City Councilโ€™s derelict sites register #HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland
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@ciaraphelan_ Ah Jesus. Iโ€™m going to fly stock into south east & give everyone choice to get Sputnik. Weโ€™ll be done in 10 days. Then everyone can come work & holiday down the south east. Screw Dublinโ€™s dithering.
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Waterford community; I'm asking for you to vote for a mayor. To put our county at the top table. To deliver the potential we have. A vote for mayor is a vote of confidence in ourselves & 4 a future that sees our kids to stay in our communities. Vote yes to take power from Dublin.
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@Andy_2000x @frank_oconnor @davidmcw I asked a county Council Economic Development Director to put the vacant units to put them all on a map to enable investors and communities to see where the vacant units were. Response? โ€˜Will make us look bad and weโ€™d have to then do work to then regenerate them.โ€™ Some mindset!
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