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THE STARK COMPARISON between future housing needs in the Greater Dublin Area and elsewhere has been brought into focus by the ESRI.
Research from the think-tank shows that 86% of the additional housing needed over the next ten years will be in Dublin, Louth, Meath, Kildare and Wicklow.
The institutes points out the projected lack of housing in the Dublin commuter belt is very different to the oversupply that exists elsewhere.
Analysis of population trends shows that 180,000 additional housing units will be required between 2011 and 2021. The ESRI points out that the large number of existing vacant dwellings will reduce this requirement, by half, to 90,000 units.
The shortfall is not evenly distributed though according to research author Dr Edgar Morgenroth:
Of the 90,000 additional housing units required between 2011 and 2021, over 60% (54,000 units) are needed in Dublin and a further 26% are needed in counties Louth, Meath, Kildare and Wicklow. Thus the requirement for additional housing units is projected to be highly concentrated in the Greater Dublin area
Last month in the Dáil, Minister for Finance Michael Noonan said that he felt that the capacity of land zoned for housing in the country is more than enough to meet the expected demand for new housing.
He did not provide a geographical breakdown of these areas however.
Morgenroth states that the current level of housing completions “will result in significant housing shortages in the Greater Dublin Area if the rate of housing completions does not increase rapidly”.
Originally published 6:30am.
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Imagine the furore if it was Ryanair.
Pilots p45 would be in the post if it were Ryanair
And some major questions to answer regarding why they are flying 747s in Jo’Burg
Why wouldn’t they? It says he took the wrong runway in error.
*taxiway
Ha ha! Very clever… Although too clever it appears for some…
Major questions if RYANAIR were flying 747s in Jo’burg….
Re-read red thumbers!
It reminds me of the scene from the spoof movie Airplane.
I still don’t get it, would somebody mind explaining the joke to me? I don’t see what would be so funny about Ryanair flying 747s in Johannesburg.
Original source for the photo seems to be this tweet. I’d much rather she got the credit than Sky News. https://twitter.com/HarrietTolputt/status/414884728605405184
Take the one on the left.
Right, the left.
Yes left
Right turning left.
No left
I am turning left.
No you are turning right
No I am turning left.
No you are turning right
Oh you mean your left
Right
What
Bang.
all of the above while using opposite hand gestures!
Being signed by the Mandela signer!
Was it a woman pilot :)
The pilot was a Liverpool supporter.
A woman Liverpool supporter pilot guided in by a male man utd table tennis bat person controlled by a transgendered Arsenal fan in the tower.
Aircraft obviously had too little fuel/too much fuel/inexperienced pilot/too old a pilot/tired pilot/shoddy maintenance record/radar not working………… Oh, wait, it was a BA aircraft not Ryanair, so it’s just a silly little mistake. Could happen to anyone, hardly worth a comment.
Collides into?
It clipped the building. The headline is a bit dramatic.
From the pic it looks like they ripped the first 20 feet off the front of the building. A destructive clip. Assume a pilot visual is fairly limited in that situation.
Grammar alert! Things collide with each other, not into each other.
It looks like more than clip from the pic.
Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit amphetamines.
No claims bonus, gone!
Imagine the phone call to the F B D claimes dept, and find out only the left wing was covered , because you didn’t pay the excess.
Took a wrong taxiway. Not runway..
No one hurt is the important thing. The pilot and ground handler will be lucky to keep there jobs.
BA gonna get some bill from the airport and aviation authority there…. New wing won’t be cheap either…
Collides into building, it says it in the heading
Luckily the pilot didn’t make a wrong turn and enter a runway where a plane was landing or taking off
Now that’s what I’d call a wedgie.
Wait for the world traveler to appear, only dying to shorten Johannesburg to Jo- blah. Wow you must have been there before??? You are an inspiration to us all.
Guess the pilot was on the mobile or texting when this happened
Neither was using the iPhone Maps.
Simple workaround here people. Position parking sensors on the wing tips. With the amount of advance avionics technology these days I’m surprised it’s not done yet. By the way…I bags patient pending on this!
Holy sh1t ! Lucky to get away with that, could have ended a whole lot worse.
Wondering what protection a pilot has? Is there cover or do you get sacked right out
Generally the pilots are told which taxiway to take, so it’s not really their fault
Well let’s say pilot error. Is airline gonna sake him over the million pounds of damage?
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