Housing remains a black mark on Irish report card

Housing and health have dominated most of the political and media headlines relating to the economy so far in 2018, writes Jim Power.

This should come as no surprise, given the acute hospital trolley crisis and the housing data, or more precisely the lack of housing data that we can trust as an accurate reflection of what is actually going on in relation to new house building.

It would not take a brave or prescient individual to figure out that these topics will more than likely continue to dominate much of the economic discourse over the duration of 2018.