Housing crisis: State not rising to the challenge

There is, it would seem, no housing crisis in Dublin for private and corporate tenants able to find €3,700 a month to rent one of the two-bedroom apartments newly on the market in the city’s docklands, or the five-figure rents the four-bedroom penthouse flats there are expected to fetch. With south facing water views, roof gardens and floor-to-ceiling windows, these are top-of-range properties and worth every cent.

There is, clearly, a demand in this high-end market in the small but perfectly-formed Dublin triangle now known as Google Town: a quarter of the 120 apartments had been taken even before this week’s official launch.