Peadar Tobin

Habitual residency in this country is 52 weeks.

So a person moving to this country after 52 weeks is entitled to social housing.

that's very low in international standards.

So like, for example, Austria would have five years habitual residency.

Sweden would have three years habitual residency.

So it may be a policy decision that councillors and TDs need to make is to increase the length of the habitual residency in Ireland in relation to take the demand pressure off the system so we can get to some level of equilibrium in terms of supply and demand.

Yeah, exactly.

So a person just moved here within 52 weeks can go on a housing list.

And in some places, believe it or not, Clare, they could be asked, do they have a property elsewhere?

If they have a property elsewhere, they're not allowed a house in Ireland.

But in some local authorities, people are being asked to self-declare whether they have a house elsewhere.

And it's that type of information that is frustrating people who are maybe paying taxes for 20, 30 years and they're finding it difficult to get a local authority house here.

So we do need to pull different levers to change things in this country to make it fairer for people in terms of access to housing.

No, so what happened in Belfast is absolutely disgusting.

The idea that we have people being burnt out of their houses, young children being forced into the back of police vans to get out of harm's way is disgusting.

And, you know, a lot of people blame social media in relation to those, but loyalists have never needed social media to burn people out of their houses.

You know, we've had burning of people out of their houses for generations in the north of Ireland.

Unfortunately, it is part of...

a culture of a very small sector of society.

The majority of people who were engaged in that behaviour, Clare, were people who burned tricolours on bonfires, and that's the truth of it.