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Housing Crisis, Ireland, November 12 2024 : Left-wing election candidates respond to RTÉ Upfront True Stories

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Councillor John Lyons, Dublin Bay North Candidate

Councillor John Lyons, Candidate, Dublin Bay North

Good to see opposition politicians cutting through the bleedin’ heart nonsense from FF & FG regarding the housing crisis on

@RTEUpfront

: if they really cared, we wouldn’t have 3,388 homeless children in Dublin tonight. #HousingCrisis

https://x.com/CllrJohnLyons/status/1856112498291753276

Councillor Ruth Coppinger, Candidate, Dublin West

A young woman in the audience just punctured the guff on

@RTEUpfront. In a homeless hub with a child with a life limiting condition. What shame for a government that has had a record budget surplus. Cheek of minister saying ‘I have a family too’ on his salary.

Councillor Conor Reddy, Candidate, Dublin North-West

My “smaller landlord” takes half my income every month for a boxy studio. We don’t need a “diversity of landlords” or “more landlords” as Paschal suggests, we need a no-fault eviction ban, rent reductions and state construction at scale! #RTEUpfront #AnotherIrelandIsPossible

Chloe; Mick Caul comments

Heartbreaking How anyone can listen to this women’s experience of homelessness and vote #FFg in this election is beyond me. This is going on almost a decade, it’s shameful. They’ve been forgotten & abandoned #RteUpfront #HousingCrisis #HopeForAChange

https://twitter.com/caulmick/status/1856109071620837579

Councillor Conor Reddy provides context :

Rory Hearne has good ideas but how does he implement them if

@SocDems

won’t learn the lesson of the Greens and Labour in coalition? The only way out of this crisis is by putting those who caused it out of power altogether. #RTEUpfront

https://twitter.com/ConorReddy95/status/1856093334990643566

https://twitter.com/ConorReddy95/status/1856104656578974207

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