Rory Hearne
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 24 Aug
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to facilitating, and it was the FDI thinking, it was the FDI model, this is what sorted our economy, it'll sort housing too.
We'll get international capital in and that will fix our housing problem without changing it fundamentally, but actually moving it more towards
a much more financialized model, and we win.
And so you have people like Pat Farrell, former chairperson of Fianna Fáil, who is now the head of Institutional Property Ireland, key actor who worked with institutional investors, Michael Noonan as Minister for Finance at Fianna Gael.
These were people in key positions who brought in global capital to invest.
And now we have corporate landlords,
You know, owning in some places, 40% of private rental properties in areas.
And it's incredible when you look at it, how that has happened.
And we look at it, the legacy of it and how it's still impacting.
in real time, as you say, like the discussions around the budget, they've given, you know, hundreds of millions in VAT cuts to developers, which goes to investor funds.
Their whole model, their argument is now that the state, they've said it, like the Taoiseach has said it on the floor of the Dáil, the state is doing all it can.
It is like pumping billions into housing, but there's still this huge gap between
In terms of getting to the numbers we need, we're building whatever, 30,000 at the moment, we need to get to 50,000.
How do we get there?
This massive gap of funding.
The solution they've identified is international capital.
That's what they need.
This is what all their policy documents say.
I was literally debating with the Minister for Housing last night where I had his speech where he sets out, this is what we have done to address supply.
Change apartment standards.
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