Tag: Housing crisis
Young people in Laois ‘putting lives on hold due to housing...
New Eurostat figures from 2022 show that more than two in three (68%) people in Ireland aged between 25 and 29 are still living...
Housing crisis is having a growing and disproportionate affect on education
The ongoing housing supply crisis is having a growing and disproportionate affect on teachers.
It was revealed that are over 1,000 unfilled teaching vacancies being...
“Rental crisis a ticking time bomb for old and young in...
Local Area Representative for the Labour Party, Eoin Barry says the Alone and Threshold report published this week highlights the hardening of inequality through...
Laois TD calls for eviction ban to be extended in the...
Local Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley told the Minister for Housing in the Dáil this week that the eviction ban must be extended until...
‘Riverside Estate in Portarlington highlights need for effective building controls’ –...
Local Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley has spoken in the Dáil this week about issues surrounding an apartment complex in Portarlington.
Speaking on a Sinn...
Council urged to purchase houses that are up for sale as...
A Laois County Councillor has pleaded with the Council to buy up homes that are for sale in the county in a bid to...
Loan deposits demand compounding ‘housing crisis’ in Laois
For the umpteenth time this year Laois County Councillors have expressed their frustration and dismay over the protracted housing crisis.
Speaking at the final meeting...
‘Never a better time to be a landlord, and never a...
Speaking on the Budget announced on Tuesday, Brian Stanley TD said: “It’s never been a better time to be a landlord and never worse...
‘Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil back failed Minister and failed housing...
A Laois TD has spoken in the Dáil this week on the Sinn Féin motion of no confidence in Minister for Housing, Planning and...
Over 400 names have dropped off the Laois County Council housing...
The Laois County Council housing waiting list has seen a drop of over 400 names in the past four months according to housing officer...
Action sought on Laois housing crisis as homelessness increases
The lack of housing in Laois with an ever increasing housing waiting list has led to it being labelled a crisis in the Dáil.
Sinn...
Council’s Housing Department has more than 1,000 repairs outstanding
The Laois County Council's Housing Department has more than 1,000 repairs on homes waiting to be carried out, a meeting has heard.
Head of Housing...
Works to begin on vacant social housing scheme in Mountrath
Sinn Fein TD Brian Stanley says that works on a vacant social housing scheme in Mountrath will begin shortly.
He has announced that the contract has...
Wired with Whelan: The Ballinspittle housing crisis comes to Ballymagash
Some of them were dreamers
And some of them were fools
Who were making plans and thinking of the future
With the energy of the innocent
They were...
Homeless people in Laois being sent to live in Mullingar and...
A local County Councillor has told how homeless people in Laois have been sent to live in hostels as far away as Mullingar and...
Laois rents make for ‘grim reading’ – Stanley
Sinn Fein TD Brian Stanley says he is alarmed at the latest figures on private rental costs in Laois and that the case for...
3,000 houses lie vacant as housing waiting list grows
Many families in Laois are waiting over four years to secure a council house, while 3,000 houses are currently lying idle in the county.
Due...