Last week, in response to a question by Holly Cairns in the Dáil, An Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said the following: “One of our biggest deficiencies, in housing supply in Ireland, is we’re a country of three-bed homes, by and large, and we don’t have enough one-bed homes.” In doing so, he touched on a very important aspect of Ireland’s housing systems failure – one that gets to the heart of some of the deeper divisions in the housing policy debate here. Perhaps it is because of who said it, rather than what was said, but the response online – even…

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