“Contrary to the rhetoric that’s out there that Sinn Féin’s anti-landlord. We are anti a dysfunctional private rental sector.”
In his 2009 book Sinn Féin and the Politics of Left Republicanism, Eoin Ó Broin identified eight theses about the party and its future success. In a thought-provoking interview with the economist Stephen Kinsella, Ó Broin, now Sinn Féin spokesperson on housing, revisits the eight thesis, and also talks about what has changed in the 13 years since the book was published.
He also talks about the party’s recent electoral success, Sinn Fein’s command structure and potential coalition partners. Kinsella and Ó Broin talk at length about the party’s housing strategy, institutional investors and why the debate about housing needs to change.
