Feel free to explain the hand-waving vague "linked in some manner" and what relevance it has.
You might as well say "Your IT job is linked in some manner to the high price of Dublin escorts".
As has been discussed in the media at length by nearly every economist the Irish property industry and the subsequent vast amounts of tax money generated by it for the governement allowed them to put alot of it back into the IDA to gain jobs via foreign investment programmes ad incentives
Somehow I dont think the "dublin escorts" have had the same effect
You seem to not understand the difference between "unable to" and "want to". I myself could have stretched to paying a considerable mortgage. However, when looking at historical trends in house prices, it seemed insane. I was right. And those who were wrong now want me to bail them out.
I simply dont understand your point in the context of this discussion. Just because you didnt want to or were unable to purchase a property does not give you or anyone else the right to request that second home owners bail out the country. How have you bailed them out? I own a second home and you certianly will not be bailing me out in any way.
You point in relation to "historical trends" has no bearing as wages, inflation, the move to the Euro and many other reasons have made "hostorical trends" redundant as our system changed to a totally new system when we joined the Euro and we dont have the opportunity to instigate the fiscal policies that resulted in the trends of the past.