I'm not a famous economist writing for the Irish Times, obviously, but I know a bit about demography.
I feel there's a huge conceptual error in this article, that suggests to me the writer doesn't fully grasp demography.
I'll give my opinion on it, if anybody is interested.
In the article he argues the following:
-Average family size = 2.5 persons
-55,000 births minus 35,000 deaths = 20,000 natural increase in the population
-20,000 / 2.5 = 8,000 new homes needed.
In my opinion you could be thrown out of class for those calculations/conclusions.
Newborn babies typically join existing households and place minimal pressure on housing demand in the short-term.
Vast majority of deaths are in the over 75's, where home ownership rates are 80%-90%, and many of those homes are freed up e.g. bequeathed.
Garron Noone being championed by every far-right clown in Ireland.
I'll go through what he said in order to go way, way up in the estimation of bigots.
Also some factual counterpoints to his views, which in my opinion could charitably be described as "ignorant shite." /1
Definition of far-right used in many studies is meeting at least 3 of the following 5 characteristics.
(1) nationalism, (2) racism, (3) xenophobia, (4) antidemocracy or (5) strong state advocacy.
If not meeting at least 3, then you're not being referred to by the term.
Quote:
"My opinion on Conor McGregor is irrelevant but I don't think he's a good person, I don't think it's particularly hard to find evidence of that, but it doesn't surprise me..."
Most of that sentence, though not all, is an opinion many people share.
Quote: "I look to Brussels, where EU Commisars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest, the moment they spot what they've judged to be hateful content."
That's a whopper of a distortion of EU law, that no serious person should make.
Link to the EU law is below, I'll discuss it in the next tweet.
Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on a Single Market For Digital Services and amending Directive 2000/31/EC (Digital Services Act)