Jim Power: Responsibility for housing should be given to the Taoiseach

Housing is not just a social issue but also an economic one
Jim Power: Responsibility for housing should be given to the Taoiseach

Housing is the most important element of national economic competitiveness. Picture: Denis Minihane.

As we look ahead to 2023, intense uncertainty seems to be the most appropriate description of what lies ahead. 

The global economy ended 2022 under pressure against a background of high inflation, rising interest rates, serious difficulties in the Chinese economy, and a general expectation/fear that the economies of the EU, the UK and the US could well experience technical recession in the first half of 2023. 

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