The research shows that the vast majority of respondents who cited immigration and housing as the issues they noticed have a negative view of the Government’s performance. Illustration: Paul Scott
The poll shows that 29 per cent of respondents said that immigration was the issue they noticed the Government doing or saying something about in the past month. This was far ahead of housing , which has been the number one issue for most of the time since Ipsos B&A began measuring this data last summer.
On housing, the responses were even worse for the Government. Nine out of ten comments were negative, with just 9 per cent positive. The data was collected using Omnipoll, Ipsos’s telephone omnibus survey which interviews a fresh, nationally representative sample of 1,000 adults aged 15-plus every two weeks. The sample used includes both mobile and landline phone numbers.There is an attempt at sustainability for the climate. Immigration is out of control but they are putting a plan in place to help with that. The economy is also doing well.
Wrong direction: cycle ways being put in and nobody is using them, waste of money. Health service and immigration. The immigration: well, it’s just so many people coming in that Ireland cannot accommodate and sustain them, especially related to the housing situation. Heading in the wrong direction currently.
The Government needs to stop companies from buying up houses so that ordinary people can have more access to them.Price of rents going up each year – going in the wrong direction.