Irish Examiner View: Public needs less talk, more action on housing

We have discussed any number of potential solutions to the housing crisis for too long.

A generation of craftsmen blown to the four corners of the earth because their jobs here vanished overnight during the financial crash. File Picture: Rui Vieira/PA Wire

In recent times, little has excited the Irish psyche as much as the housing crisis.

Since the financial crash of 2008 — when a building boom imploded and almost brought the country to its knees — we have had neither the enthusiasm nor ability to match the heady house-building figures we saw achieved nearly 20 years ago, and that has frustrated and maddened us.