Re: Re: Eoghan Harris on one-off housing
@Thomond Park wrote:
It is a statisitical fact that Urban Ireland i.e. Cork Dublin Limerick subsidise rural areas]
This is the mainstay of the anti-one-off argument. Please provide me with the statistical breakdown showing exactly how much urban tax payers money DIRECTLY subsidizes one-off houses. Then calculate the net contribution the owners of those houses make to the state through net tax payments, B&B revenues and agricultural incomes and subtract it. Please show me these figures. I am very interested in seeing them as this is what your argument continually falls back on. Surprise, you cannot show me them. Then basically you have no argument – you have conjecture as vapourous as the gasses coming out the back of your car.
@Thomond Park wrote:
Except in very select cases where a farmer requires a house for a son or daughter actively involved in agricultural production. To prevent the widespread fraud that goes on occupancy conditions need to be enforced to prevent sites becoming the main crop. .
So by this logic, only dockers and the sons and daughters of dockers should be allowed live in Dublins docklands. Please correct me if I have misunderstood you. If a banker should be allowed live there, then surely a banker should be allowed live in a field in Co.Offaly?? Or is there one rule for towns and another for cities?
I beg you to at least read what I have written. I asked ‘does that mean it has a higher crime rate that virtually every other county in Ireland (as only about 4 others have full prisons to the best of my knowledge)? That is, it was a question asked so as to expose and highlight the ridiculous nature of your argument on drugs in Roscommon. It seems that you didn’t get what I was saying. Again, this makes me less likely to accept the arguments you have against one-off houses as your ability ti decipher arguments appears somewhat hampered.
And the stereotypcial picture of gombeen local politics you have painted of rural Ireland is fair, is it? It just throws up all of the old anti-rurla stereotypes used to bash people living in the countryside with about as much sophistication and social depth as a sketch by the d’Unbelievables.
