This Reboot Republic Podcast talks to Sinn Féin spokesperson on housing, Eoin Ó Broin, about their proposals on housing for the upcoming Budget, including increasing capital funding for housing, providing 20,000 public housing, and how that could be done, renters relief, removing investor funds tax breaks, and a referendum on a right to housing. For more click on patreon.com/tortoiseshack Production […]
Please support this podcast at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, part of the special series on Budget 2023, Rory talks to Louise Bayliss of Focus Ireland, Ann Marie O Reilly from Threshold and Colette Bennet from Social Justice Ireland about what the Government should do to address the homelessness, renters and housing crisis in the Budget. The panel outline the […]
Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this second podcast of the Reboot Republic pre-Budget 2023 special series, Rory talks to Tricia Keilthy of the St Vincent De Paul and Tanya Ward of the Children’s Rights Alliance, about the impact of the cost of living and housing crises, and what can and should be done in Budget 2023, set to take place […]
Government has finances in Budget 2023 to really tackle cost of living crisis -but will it? This Reboot Republic podcast is part of our Budget 2023 special series (3 available now on members feed) on putting forward proposals to tackle the cost of living, energy and housing crisis. In this first episode Rory talks to Susanne Rogers, Research and Policy […]
In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Rob Barrett, who tells the story of how him and his wife, have been made homeless as the place they were renting is being sold. They cannot find anywhere. Rob tells their story of the housing crisis, as Rob explains, he is trying to humanise the crisis which has become dehumanised. He feels […]
In this Reboot Republic Rory talks to Clodagh Daly, Manager of the Centre for Environmental Justice, and Mary Heavey, Housing Solicitor, Community Law & Mediation, an independent community law centre based in Coolock in Dublin and Limerick. We discuss issues of rising energy poverty, how the housing crisis, energy poverty and cost of living are combining leading to people facing […]
In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Dr Patrick Bresnihan, lecturer in in the Department of Geography at Maynooth University. We go beyond the narrow media ‘Agriculture versus the rest’ in climate emissions to discuss who are Ireland’s farmers, the agri-food industry, ideas for creating food sovereignty and sustainable agriculture and food production that can provide livelihoods in rural Ireland. […]
In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks about rising child poverty in Ireland with Tanya Ward, CEO of the Children’s Rights Alliance, Marian Quinn, CEO of the Childhood Development Initiative, and Zoe Obeimhen, mother of four and a campaigner for the Bridgefoot Street playground. We discuss the findings from the Child Poverty Monitor 2022, impact of poverty on children’s sense of […]