It’s not everyday the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Housing, Leilani Farha, is in Dublin. So naturally we were delighted to sit down and get her views on the Irish Housing and Homelessness Crisis and its potential solutions. In her role, Leilani focuses economic inequality and she explains to the podcast why adequate housing is the doorway to human dignity. This […]
A lost child is every parents worst nightmare, yet everyday in Ireland we lose 1 in 7 children to poverty and neglect. June Tinsley, Head of Advocacy of Barnardos, explains to us the steps that our government can take to stop this and how spending only €250m will increase social and economic outcomes by a multiple of that amount. This […]
Why do we always hear the argument that we need to be more like the Nordic Countries? Well probably because they match the direction of their economies to meet the needs of their societies. So we are delighted to be joined by two towers of Irish Sociology and Political thinking, Dr Mary Murphy and Prof. Sean Ó Riain, to discuss […]
We Repealed the 8th. But it’s good to remember how we got here and so we were absolutely thrilled to be joined by Independent Senator, activist and advocate for social and economic equality Alice Mary Higgins, who explodes the myths and misinformation around the referendum and explains why it was critical to us all, men and women, that we came […]
In Reboot Republic we are going to deal with the issues that the government don’t deal with. First up is Dr Mick Byrne of the School of Social Policy, UCD. Mick has extensive knowledge of how other countries develop successful social housing infrastructure that costs a fraction of our current Housing Assistance Payment scheme. This is the way forward, for […]