Ronan Lyons

The commission has outlined a need to radically redesign housing policy and give a clear pathway for building new homes. If not, we will be talking about a growing housing deficit for years to come.

Without any change in conditions, rents this year are likely to be up and not down. Why? Because the rental sector still awaits the kind of policy changes that will generate tens of thousands of new rental homes.

The shift from Munster to Leinster has not been confined to just the rugby pitch. It is something that can be seen in the economic structure of the country, too.

Simon Harris has promised that his Government will build 250,000 new homes over the next five years. However, many, many more are needed and the taoiseach must make his strategy and tactics very clear.

Housing demand has shifted over the past decade, and yet a large premium still exists for Dublin homes. Remote working may have changed the equilibrium but it won’t make our city housing deficit disappear.

Incomes have been rising decade on decade, boosting demand for Ireland’s tourist offerings. Irish policymakers need to have their response planned, writes Ronan Lyons.

Despite progress in construction output over recent years, there is still a real need for new rental homes across the country, not just in the big population centres but also in smaller provincial towns. Can Ireland deliver them?

Dublin City Council has refused planning permission for central hotel developments on the grounds that they’re not needed in the areas, missing the point that failure to build hotel rooms puts renewed pressure on existing housing stocks.

What Ireland needs over the next three decades is the exact opposite of what it has had for the last one: a system that can deliver homes at huge scale, and that can adapt as conditions change.

The geography of the housing construction industry is changing. While record numbers of new homes are being built, that is not the case in Dublin’s commuter counties, raising questions for planning policy.