The general election on November 29th will send 174 TDs to the Dáil from 43 constituencies.
The electoral map has changed significantly since the last election, with four extra constituencies and 14 more seats.
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Every constituency will have its own individual battle, with candidates having to respond to different local priorities and issues.
On a national level, the most contentious issue for the Government will be Ireland’s housing crisis, which has rumbled on since the recession when investment in public services was slashed.
The Government’s Housing for All plan, which sets out an aim to build an average of 33,000 homes a year until 2030, has been criticised as not ambitious enough and that the share of public housing is too small.
A shortage of supply has propelled house prices and rents to surge beyond average wages, while Ireland’s traditionally high rate of home ownership has plummeted, particularly among young people.
Homeless figures have also regularly hit new record highs during the coalition’s time in office.
Ahead of the 2020 general election, the Government’s official homelessness tally surpassed 10,000 people for the first time – now, 14,760 people are homeless.
The Government has argued it has overseen record levels of home building and offered two, punter-friendly, State grants to help first-time buyers afford new builds.
Opposition parties argue the State’s housing supply – both social and affordable homes – needs to be greater and that Government policy has left house prices to inflate.
To the Government’s critics, the housing crisis appears paradoxical when set against booming public finances, with the State’s coffers buoyed each year by billions of euro in tax receipts from multinational giants who have set up bases in the Republic.
The same argument is made when it comes to parts of the health service, such as the lengthy waits endured by children requiring spinal surgery.
Hospital overcrowding is another issue that successive governments have grappled with. It often piles major pressure on the HSE during winter, but now healthcare workers say it has become a year-round problem.
The Government parties say real progress has been delivered in housing and healthcare during a mandate that ends with the country’s finances in rude health.
The response to the increase in migration in the last two years in Ireland is also an election issue, though some politicians have said it is less prominent on the doors now than it was earlier in the year.
Tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees have arrived in Ireland since Russia’s invasion and the number of asylum seekers from elsewhere in the world increased dramatically post-pandemic.
This has placed unprecedented strain on State accommodation provision, leading to tensions and disputes in some areas over plans to repurpose hotels and other buildings into facilities for international protection applicants.
Anti-immigration protests have become more common and gardaí have also had to deal with several outbreaks of far-right influenced rioting and disorder.
