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In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with Tony about the most recent housing crisis personal story that he's received and how the mental health issues this crisis aren't adequately provided for. They discuss the urgent need for an eviction ban of 3 years and not just a sticking plaster "get us through the winter" and the look at the opportunity to kick-off the State Construction Company now as Institutional Investors are downing tools because it's not as lucrative as they'd like.

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This was a brilliant tortoise shack Sunday show! Thanks to Shrapnel co-host, Sam McIlwaine, Legal Eagle, Seana Grant and Irish man in Finland, Dan Nikstrom for joining us to talk election gerrymandering, immigration Stamp System dysfunction, ill-judged chants and sectarian songs, social housing done correctly, data centre bailouts, the Tory govt dysfunction and why we’re all moving to Helsinki.

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The government have launched their long-awaited online service to assist people affected by the Mother and Baby Homes to find out their personal details. Joining me to discuss this is co-founder of the Adoptions Rights Alliance and director of the Clann Project, Claire McGettrick.

We talk about the services now available and whether they are fit for purpose, the Government backtracking on their promises once again and what now for the survivors and their families. It is truly appalling that the "refined" redress scheme fails to take account for the forced separation of families.

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The Vacant homes tax: will it make any difference?

In this Reboot Republic Rory talks to change makers Jude Sherry & Frank O’Connor of the Anois agency who have been leading campaigns and ideas to tackle vacancy & dereliction. We analyse the Vacant homes Tax , how it results from public pressure and shows the hope In change, but also what needs to be done to really tackle vacancy and dereliction. An uplifting and engaging discussion on social change and ideas to Solve the housing crisis.

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The Government announced their plans for a flexible retirement age and for years now we've read or heard about the tick, tick, ticking of a pensions time-bomb. Then we witnessed Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, dismissing the expert Commission on Taxation, let's just say that many eyebrows were raised. A Government preaching for less taxation, while looking to extend the working life? Something doesn't add up.

Joining us to make sense of the convenient narrative is economist with NERI, Ciaran Nugent. He talks about the €8bn gap between Ireland and equivalent countries when it comes to collecting the taxes that should be pouring into the pension pot. We don't have a pension time-bomb. We have a failure to collect the taxes ordinarily payed by certain sectors of the economy.

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A recent report out of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Region has shown that inequality and food insecurity is growing at an alarming rate. In fact, we can see that the two richest people in the region have as much wealth as the bottom 50% of the entire population of the LAC!

Joining us to discuss what this means, how it can be tackled and the impacts it is having on politics, society and the economy is Brazilian-based economic justice coordinator with Oxfam, Dr Grazielle David.

We discuss how the IMF and developed world treat the LAC differently and explore the economic colonialism that pushed austerity in the LAC while demands stimulus in the EU. A great listen.

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The world has witnessed protests in Iran against their government for many decades, but the events following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa (Jina) Amini’s death in the custody of Iran’s abusive “morality police” (hopefully) are different. Joining me to explain what has happened and why you can trace the roots of these protests all the way back to 1979, is Iran and Kuwait Researcher (herself a graduate of Sharif University of Technology in Tehran) Tara Sepehri Far.

We discuss the multi-generational aspect of the protests, the changes in how women's rights are perceived in Iran and more.

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On this Reboot Republic, Tony jumps into the hot seat and talks to Rory about his new book, Gaffs - Why no one can get a house and what we can do about it.

They discuss what home means, lifting the stigma of housing insecurity, linking housing action to climate action and why Rory wants to see a values shift in our economy and society.

They talk about Rory's journey from a seeing a 7 year old child at a 2015 housing march, to a hotel lobby in 2017 with UN Special Rapporteur for Housing, Leilani Farha and on to this new book.

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This week on the Shrapnel Podcast we are joined by Professor Olwen Purdue, who specialises in the social and economic history of nineteenth and twentieth-century Ireland. Her research focuses on poverty, welfare and public health in the industrial city.

Olwen is the founder and Director of the Centre for Public History at Queen's University Belfast. Olwen was also specialist historical advisor for Titanic Belfast and a member of the advisory group for the Ulster Museum's Irish history exhibition and its Troubles and Beyond gallery.

On this pod we discuss the need to record real lives as part of history, before those stories are lost. We hope to talk with her again.

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Paywall Lifted!

As the UK Government announce a U-Turn and an additional £18bn in cuts, we are rejoined by listeners favourite, Professor Richard Murphy to ask what it all means beyond the schadenfreude.

We talk about the economic realities and the political choices ahead, none of which are very attractive. We discuss the impact this creative destruction ideology is and will have on the social fabric and Richard outlines why we "need a new song" to help move us from isolation of neoliberalism to embracing the participation in society.

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