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Irish Independent
29 minutes ago
- Irish Independent
Not a single site in Cork has been made available in the three years of the Ready to Build scheme
Under the terms of the scheme, local authorities are to make serviced sites in towns and villages available to individuals to build their principal private residence on. The intention of the scheme is that local authorities would develop existing sites in their control or purchase them, add services and then sell them at a discount on the market value to potential house builders. The level of discount depends on the servicing cost incurred by the local authority and goes up to a maximum of €30,000. The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage then recoups the local authority for the money spent providing servicing on the sites. First-time buyers are prioritized under the scheme, followed by those with particular needs or people who want to move to live in a town or village. However, at a recent meeting of the Southern Division of Cork County Council, the Council's Housing Directorate, responding to a question by East Cork Councillor Eamonn Horgan (Social Democrats), said that no sites have been made available under the scheme in County Cork to date. In response, Councillor Horgan has branded the scheme a failure in the county. "It's a disappointing response — three years into the scheme and zero sites offered. It has clearly failed to date. I was hopeful and optimistic when this scheme was announced and now it's frustration and annoyance," he told the Irish Independent. "It's the human cost that's being overlooked in all these failed schemes proposed by the government. Homelessness. Mental health issues. Families having children later in life due to the uncertainty and cost of housing. Society is being upended. We need to get serious. We need to start thinking outside the box from a council level and national level in how we are going to get these schemes moving. We need to build more houses — before we lose yet another generation to delay and dysfunction," Councillor Horgan added. Cork County Council told the Irish Independent that a small number of sites are being considered for the scheme in North Cork, but they can't be sold at present due to servicing issues. The Council said it is seeking to acquire land for all of its housing programmes, including the Ready to Build Scheme.
RTÉ News
an hour ago
- RTÉ News
US tariffs on steel and aluminum doubled to 50%
The United States has doubled steel and aluminum tariffs as US President Donald Trump's intensifying trade war weighs on the world economy. The move, which Mr Trump earlier said was aimed at protecting domestic steel and aluminum industries, takes his levies on both metals from 25% to 50%. The US president's sweeping tariffs on allies and adversaries alike - including levies on imported steel and autos - have strained US ties with trading partners, including the European Union, and sparked a flurry of negotiations to avoid the duties. Pressure is mounting as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a 38-nation grouping of mostly developed countries, cut its global growth forecast on the back of Mr Trump's levies Trade, consumption and investment have been affected by the tariffs, OECD chief economist Alvaro Pereira earlier told AFP, warning that the US economy will see the biggest repercussions. While some of Mr Trump's most sweeping levies face legal challenges, they have been allowed to remain in place for now as an appeals process is ongoing. US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and EU trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic are set to hold talks on the sidelines of the gathering, with the bloc seeking to stave off higher levies from 9 July absent a compromise. Similarly, UK Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds met Mr Greer yesterday to try and avert fresh tariff hikes on steel and aluminum. Despite the doubling of steel and aluminum tariffs, imports from the UK will remain at 25% for now, while both sides work out duties and quotas in line with the terms of their trade pact. In their talks, Mr Reynolds and Mr Greer discussed a "shared desire to implement" the pact, including agreements on sectoral tariffs, as soon as possible, a UK readout said. However, Trump's latest salvo raises temperatures with various partners. The European Union has said it "strongly regrets" Mr Trump's plan to raise metals tariffs, cautioning that it "undermines ongoing efforts to reach a negotiated solution" with the United States. The bloc added that it was ready to retaliate. Looming deadline Mexico will request an exemption from the higher tariff, Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard said, arguing that it is unfair because the United States exports more steel to Mexico than it imports. "It makes no sense to put a tariff on a product in which you have a surplus," Mr Ebrard said. Mexico is highly vulnerable to Mr Trump's trade wars because 80% of its exports go to the United States, its main trading partner. Yesterday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the Trump administration sent letters to trading partners to push for offers by Wednesday as a deadline approached. Besides imposing 10% tariffs on almost all US trading partners in early April, Mr Trump had announced higher rates for dozens of economies including the EU and Japan as he sought to pressure countries to correct practices US deemed unfair. These higher rates were paused for 90 days, but the halt is due to expire 9 July. All eyes are also on rising tensions between the US and China. Mr Trump has taken special aim at China this year, imposing additional levies of 145% on Chinese imports - triggering Chinese counter tariffs of 125% on US goods. Both sides agreed to temporarily de-escalate in May, but Mr Trump accused China of violating the deal. The issue was China "slow walking the approval" of critical mineral exports and rare earth magnets, US Deputy Treasury Secretary Michael Faulkender told CNBC on Monday.
Irish Times
an hour ago
- Irish Times
Dangerous Animals review: Jaws meets Wolf Creek in this watery Ozploitation movie
Dangerous Animals Director : Sean Byrne Cert : 16 Genre : Horror Starring : Jai Courtney, Hassie Harrison, Josh Heuston, Rob Carlton, Ella Newton, Liam Greinke Running Time : 1 hr 38 mins Jaws meets Wolf Creek in a watery Ozploitation movie that seems to ask what would happen if Steve Irwin were a demented serial killer with a camcorder and mommy issues. The movie's villain, Tucker, played with operatic derangement by Jai Courtney of Terminator Genisys and Suicide Squad, runs a gnarly Gold Coast shark-dive business that is not what it seems. After luring unsuspecting tourists on to his boat, he sails into shark-infested waters, dangles his passengers overboard and films their deaths for his VHS snuff collection. New to town, Zephyr (Hassie Harrison) is a nomadic lone-wolf American surfer chick with a militant resistance to emotional intimacy. When she hooks up with a sensitive Aussie named Moses (Josh Heuston), she stays in her van and disappears before breakfast. Unhappily, that's when she gets nabbed by Tucker. READ MORE Zephyr's lock-picking girlboss survivalist isn't always enough to counter the film's fetishised female suffering or its subplot sending Moses to the rescue. For all the Oedipal signalling, Nick Lepard's script can't reconcile Tucker's strangely desexualised sadism with his desire to decorate his torture-porn tapes with locks of hair from his victims. The sharks – best when they are rotoscoped from nature footage – are demoted to junior partners in this crazy man's gendered trauma. They, of course, are not the dangerous animals of the title. A surprise inclusion at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight strand last month, Sean Byrne's third feature is neither as gripping as The Loved Ones, his prom-night horror, nor as intriguing as The Devil's Candy, his supernatural heavy-metal thriller, but it rattles along as effective B-movie gore. It even manages to include a rendition of Baby Shark without descending into the pointless camp of Sharknado. [ 'Incredible - real David Attenborough stuff': thousands of young sharks discovered off Ireland's west coast Opens in new window ] Harrison is a game final girl, Courtney is an imposing villain, and their two-step is a masterclass in look-out-behind-you dramaturgy. See it with an audience for the biggest possible splash. In cinemas from Friday, June 6th
