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I don't follow the situation closely enough but I distinctly remember seeing footage of lots of half finished housing developments abandoned in Ireland. Can't they be restarted? (Or have they been and gone already?)

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It's been 15 years - mostly the ones that were in a state to be completed have been, and any that were abandoned fifteen years ago and left untouched in that time are likely (a) in the middle of nowhere and not particularly sustainable or (b) in such poor state that it'd be a knock and rebuild job.

A lot of it is a consequence of the collapse of the building trade in 2008, population growth and poor regional planning forcing everyone into the cities

> poor regional planning forcing everyone into the cities

could you please elaborate on that? What kind of poor planning and in what ways did it force people into the cities?

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