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Seamus McGrath in Podcasts

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Irish politician and member of Fianna Fáil, serving as a TD for Cork South Central and party spokesperson on housing.

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Today with David McCullagh
Rents skyrocketed in lead-up to reforms

And the question I would ask you is, in your own constituency, Seamus, where there is not going to be any institutional investment...

Today with David McCullagh
Rents skyrocketed in lead-up to reforms

Let's bring Seamus back in there.

Today with David McCullagh
Rents skyrocketed in lead-up to reforms

That's the reality in Galway today as a consequence of the legislation that Seamus and his colleagues voted for, knowing it was going to punish renters with ever-increasing rip-off rents without any meaningful increase in supply.

Today with David McCullagh
Rents skyrocketed in lead-up to reforms

And for Seamus to say that this is a blip when all other independent commentators are telling you we are going to see a period of sustained rental increases at a faster rate than we've seen for a quarter of a century.

Today with David McCullagh
Rents skyrocketed in lead-up to reforms

Seamus will stand up for the Dáil week after week and demand government do more on social affordable housing.

Today with David McCullagh
Rents skyrocketed in lead-up to reforms

And one of the things I'll challenge, and Seamus' point, is that we are blue in the face setting out both immediate short-term emergency measures and longer-term structural reforms to address supply.

Today with David McCullagh
Rents skyrocketed in lead-up to reforms

We've heard a lot about government targets in recent years, Seamus, and the government has tended to miss those targets by quite a margin.