🏠 I pressed Irish PM Micheál Martin on the pressure Ireland’s rapidly growing population is putting on housing — and whether Irish citizens should get priority for social housing.
Martin acknowledged the demographic change has been “very dramatic.”
But he said: “You can’t switch off an economy either.”
I also asked
@MichealMartinTD about figures showing 42% of households on Dublin’s social-housing waiting list were foreign nationals.
“Our position is basically citizens get priority in terms of housing.”
He also put Ireland’s transformation in historical context, pointing to the mass emigration that followed the Irish Famine. 🥔☘️
“Ireland had 8 million people in 1845 before the Great Famine. That led to the big wave of Irish people migrating to come to America.” 🇺🇸
His answer to the housing crunch?
Build more homes to match the growth in population. 🏗️👷♀️
🎥 3/3 on immigration from my
@FoxNews Digital interview:
Full story here ⬇️
foxnews.com/world/irish-pm-s…