Blindboy
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1,520 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Blindboy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like I know from seeing comments on the internet, a lot of Irish people don't understand that something like emergency accommodation, they don't understand that one of the so-called solutions for homelessness is for homeless people to be provided with emergency accommodation via hotels.
So there's, like how much does a hotel room cost a night?
Between 150 and 300 euro, hotel chains are charging the government that amount of money every single night to house homeless people.
That's market rate, so most of that money is profits.
Hotel chains are siphoning hundreds of millions every year from the Irish taxpayer because homelessness is being run as a for-profit industry in the private market.
Taxes that we think are helping homeless people are being pissed away as profits to hotel chains.
Most people aren't aware of that.
Have you ever stayed in a hotel that's also used as emergency accommodation?
I've stayed in one near Dublin Airport.
It was really expensive to stay there.
Really expensive per night.
And then when you get into the hotel, it has full occupancy, but there's no staff.
They've stopped employing people there.
There's just one person at the desk looking after maybe the 10 or 20 private customers.
But then the rest of the hotel has full occupancy.
So you have these full occupancy hotels that are making a bunch of profits at the top, but now they're behaving like they're in a recession and they have fuck all customers.
They don't need customers.
The government is their biggest customer.
Like one of the arguments for neoliberal policies is trickle-down economics.
Well, if the government is paying all these hotels, then those hotels are businesses and those businesses employ people.
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