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"The Trends Are Good, But It's Not Enough"
This week Hugh, Pat and Harry are joined by Minister of State at the Department of Housing Damien English to talk about the latest news on the housing crisis, the resignation of Noirin O'Sullivan and…
Published on 8 years, 3 months ago
Barry Cowen Defends His Housing Proposal & FF's Record / SF's Leadership Dilemma
The negative reaction to Fianna Fáil TD and spokesman on housing Barry Cowen's proposal to incentivise building by reducing VAT rates for builders shows the mistrust that is a legacy of the housing c…
Published on 8 years, 3 months ago
PSC: Compulsory or Mandatory? Housing Out Of Hand, Strategic Communications
From E-voting to water charges, there have been plenty of examples of governments getting into hot water over a 'sensible' plan emanating from the civil service. Could the controversial Public Servic…
Published on 8 years, 3 months ago
Housing Crisis: Time for the State to Build
Can we fix a housing market bedevilled by perverse incentives and bottlenecks?How important have lobbying, vested interests and ideology been in determining our housing policy?Why did the state lose …
Published on 8 years, 3 months ago
Britain's Border Proposal, Preparing for Failure, Craughwell 2018
Britain has just released a negotiating paper with details of how it sees a future UK-EU border on this island operating. Here with hot takes are Fiach Kelly and Mary Minihan. After that there is tim…
Published on 8 years, 4 months ago
Inside Story - Simon Carswell Visits Ireland's Ghost Estates
Ghost estates - residential building developments began during the boom and abandoned when the crash came - became synonymous with the excesses of the Celtic Tiger. Hundreds still dot the Irish count…
Published on 8 years, 4 months ago
Brexit: Fintan O'Toole & Jeffrey Donaldson on Dublin's Tough Talk
DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson and Irish Times columnist Fintan O'Toole discuss how well Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is playing Dublin's hand in the rather complicated game of Brexit. They join podcast regulars…
Published on 8 years, 4 months ago
Sophie Long on Varadkar, Brexit and the DUP
Former Progressive Unionist Party member and feminist academic Sophie Long gives her view on Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s recent comments about Ireland’s post-Brexit border.Ms Long, who resigned as the P…
Published on 8 years, 4 months ago
Don't Party Like It's 1999
When Government returns to its work in the autumn, the difficult and politically dangerous work of managing our economic recovery by means of the budget will begin, with much of the task landing on P…
Published on 8 years, 4 months ago
David Goodhart On Rethinking Political Divides
In his book "The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics", journalist David Goodhart attempts to provide a framework for understanding UK society that explains Brexit and th…
Published on 8 years, 5 months ago