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'Housing affordability' has become the dominant topic of Irish political discourse over the last number of years. Regularly featuring in opinion polls as the most important issue facing people, our political leaders have struggled to outline a clear path to solving this housing crisis. With residential property prices having more than doubled over the last decade, we asked some of our local Galway property experts what advice they would have for the government in handling this issue.

Ireland’s housing shortage is well documented, and it is universally accepted that we need to dramatically increase our housing output, and quickly. Patrick Cormican of Sherry FitzGerald looks at the likely impacts of the Residential Zoned Land Tax, which is among the new measures which aim to do this.