Eoin Ó Broin

Sinn Fein TD for Dub Mid-West. Spox on Housing. Author of 6 books inc Flats & Cottages, Herbert Simms & the housing of Dublins working class 1932-1948 (Dec 25)

[Sinn Féin @sinnfeinireland]

The decision to allow the building of apartments to proceed on the site of Bessborough mother and baby home is shameful.

Government must buy the site, ensure a full investigation of the the land and preserve it as a site of national conscience.

The women and children who suffered and died in this place matter. The survivors matter. The truth matters.

[Sinn Féin @sinnfeinireland]

Bessborough decision ‘shameful’; Government must listen to calls for justice and buy the site – @EOBroin

"The very least the government should do now is to protect what is possibly the final resting place for so many."
https://t.co/Bo2pU4szyO

[Eoin Ó Broin @EOBroin]

Today the NTA launched a short public consultation on proposed bus routes through Clonburris SDZ.

You can see the proposed routes here: https://t.co/pZhKZ3Gu9F

Get involved with this consultation & make submissions so we can get the best possible outcome for the community.

[Mary Lou McDonald @MaryLouMcDonald]

The government may have voted down our Irish Unity Bill tonight, but they cannot vote down the future.

This conversation isn’t going away.

We’ll be back in the Autumn with further legislation because the people of Ireland deserve to be prepared for constitutional change and the opportunity to shape our own future.

The momentum for Irish unity is growing. We will keep building it.

[Mary Lou McDonald @MaryLouMcDonald]

Today marks another important step towards planning for Irish unity.

The question is not whether there will be referendums, but whether we will be ready.

Now is the time for honest debate, respectful conversation and careful preparation, so that every person across Ireland can help shape our shared future.

This is an opportunity to build a new Ireland, one that offers hope, opportunity and a better future for generations to come.

[Sinn Féin @sinnfeinireland]

Today, we can take an historic step closer towards Irish Unity.

To building something better, and shaping a new and United Ireland. A real republic full of hope and opportunity for all our people.

TDs will have the chance to vote on Sinn Féin’s Bill. This would see government set out a real pathway to reunification.

This is the big idea of our generation. We must seize it.

[Eoin Ó Broin @EOBroin]

Michael Löwy’s From Romanticism to Bolshevism is a fascinating portrait of Hungarian Marxist Georg Lukács.

Part biography, part critical assessment, you get a sense of the man & his ideas including hopes, disappointments & the inevitable contradictions.

@VersoBooks

[Sinn Féin @sinnfeinireland]

The future of Ireland should be decided by the people of Ireland.

Tomorrow the Dáil can take the first step by backing the Sinn Féin Unity Bill that will turn the page and begin a new chapter for our future - one we can shape together.

[Eoin Ó Broin @EOBroin]

The domestic & gender based violence social housing transfer protocol is welcome.

But excluding HAP & RAS tenants makes no sense.

Govt must urgently revise & reissue the circular so no one who needs this vital support is denied it.

[Eoin Ó Broin @EOBroin]

Vacant home tax unpaid in 98pc of cases despite attempted crackdown

Payments were made on only 1,454 of the 80,000 houses lying empty

Having messed up the vacant home tax, hard to see FF/FG getting the derelict homes tax right! https://t.co/wDNlPqVLA7

[Mary Lou McDonald @MaryLouMcDonald]

The future of Ireland belongs to the people of Ireland.

We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reunite our country and build a new Ireland that works for everyone.

On July 7th, the Dáil can take the first step by backing Sinn Féin’s Irish Unity Bill. Together, we can turn the page and shape our future, together.

[Eoin Ó Broin @EOBroin]

One of the best books I have read this year…

Quinn Slobodian’s history of the neo-liberal roots of the populist right is deeply researched, beautifully written & cogently argued.

Bravo 👏👏👏 @PenguinBooks

[Eoin Ó Broin @EOBroin]

Honoured to have been with Jimmy Campion at the launch of the Elsie Black Oral History Project this week.

This is a profoundly important project from @CluidHousing & @ClannHousing

Putting residents voices at the center of our conversation about social housing is so important.

[Eoin Ó Broin @EOBroin]

Interesting that Cultural Marxists are equally loathed by the Communist Left & socially conservative Far Right

Enjoyed reading Who Paid the Piper by @GabrielRockhill despite its unconvincing thesis & dogmatic framing

Looking forward to Requiem for French Theory @monthly_review

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

Competition winning scheme to covert a 1968 office building in Paris, into 35 new social housing apartments

By Obvie Architecture and Collet Muller

[Eoin Ó Broin @EOBroin]

Nobody should be sleeping rough, full stop!

Tens of thousands of vacant homes & billions in exchequer surpluses.

Homelessness is a direct result of Government policy.

It doesn’t have to be this way. There are solutions.

[Sinn Féin @sinnfeinireland]

Rural and Gaeltacht Planning rules must support workers and families to live and thrive in their communities – @McGuinnessConor

https://t.co/A2FHJtDxd5

[Eoin Ó Broin @EOBroin]

Mother & three children with additional needs living in ‘absolute squalor’ denied medical priority twice from Dublin City Council

@PMVTrust & @DubCityCouncil have serious questions to answer.

Good work by @CiaranOMeachair
https://t.co/BRmmLYhBn7

[Sinn Féin @sinnfeinireland]

There should be no increase in the price of petrol and diesel while the Dáil is in recess and government ministers are away for their summer break.

The government must extend these cuts until Budget Day to protect households already struggling with the cost of living.