Ireland needs to build around 20,000 extra properties each year if it is to improve the country’s national housing crisis, according to the Irish Central Bank’s latest report. The country, one of the countries within the EU with the most severe housing crisis, has eye-watering housing costs. In 2022, it was double the EU average. The situation is so grave that employers, including Ryanair, have started to take matters into their own hands by buying up property to rent to their employees. The Irish housing market has been struggling with more than a decade of under-supply, according to the Iris…