Full coverage: Housing

John Collison says that Ireland’s economic success was founded on radical ideas. However, in a wide-ranging and forthright interview, the co-founder of Stripe wonders if complacency has seeped into the system.

Ronan Lyons is an international expert on housing policy. Here, he argues that Sinn Féin’s policy document marks a continuation of current housing policy, rather than a radical shift.

Cairn Homes CEO Michael Stanley wants to keep growing to meet State demand for affordable and sustainable homes and give a fair return to shareholders.

In pretending to discover the unintended consequences of the residential zoned land tax on farmers, the Government has found a reason to push back its collection. The same issues were raised – and resolved – over six years ago.

Net migration is volatile in Ireland and may well rise and fall over the coming years. But what seems far less likely to change is longer-run structural changes in society, all of which point to smaller households. This needs to be central in the housing discussion, not migration.

After leaving a string of company boards in the spring of 2021 in the wake of the Davy scandal, Garry is now director of two companies engaged with housing ventures in Dublin and Cork.

With new laws on "go-away" money imminent, the developer Greg Kavanagh said the sanctions should extend to solicitors who request such money on behalf of clients to withdraw planning objections.

The High Court is tackling the contradictions between national and local planning policy while addressing a challenge brought by neighbours to a proposed Galway residential development on a site owned by the Comer brothers.

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.

The former IHREC chief commissioner is running in the European elections. She is leaning into her human rights experience to carve out priorities on Gaza, Europe’s two-tiered migration system, and the corporate world’s social justice obligations.