Housing overtakes immigration as the top issue getting voters’ attention
Housing has overtaken immigration as the issue that is most noticed by voters when asked about the Government’s performance, according to the latest monthly Snapshot poll by Ipsos for The Irish Times.
A fifth of voters (20 per cent) nominate housing when they are asked what they have noticed about what the Government has done recently. A large majority of these voters (81 per cent) have a negative view of the Coalition’sperformance on the issue.
There has been a sharp decline in the number of respondents citing immigration as the number one issue – it falls from 26 per cent last month to 16 per cent today.
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