Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The Government is committed to a referendum on the most urgent issue of all in this country, namely the housing crisis. When will we know what that referendum is about?

Somebody who would like to know and to whom I want to give a shout-out to is Martin Leahy, an accomplished musician who has come to the gates of the Dáil every Thursday for one year to sing a song called “Everyone Should Have a Home”. He has performed at a number of cost-of-living and housing demonstrations organised by Raise the Roof and the Cost of Living Coalition. He is in a housing emergency situation. He has spent 25 years performing music and has played with some of Ireland’s greats, including John Spillane and Christy Moore. Like many others, he is caught in this dire housing crisis. Tomorrow, on the anniversary of his coming up from Cork, where he is from, every week to perform that song, it would be good for the Taoiseach to say something to people like him about the efforts they are making to appeal to him to take the radical action necessary to ensure everyone has the right to a home, as his song suggests.

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