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Dispatch · 11 Jul 2026

Social Democrats housing “expert” ignores mass immigration impacts.

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TL;DR
  • Hearne concedes housing and homelessness were in chaos before mass immigration — Dooley agrees, citing Troika bailout conditions that stopped public-house building and council stock sold into private landlords’ hands — but calls the claim that it has no market effect “completely and utterly wrong”.
  • Hearne says working-class immigrants in low-paid jobs are hit hardest, many evicted or overcrowded; Dooley’s counter: one in five Irish workers is on low pay, and during Covid the Central Bank called for more cheap labour — followed by over 120,000 arrivals from Ukraine under the temporary protection directive.
  • Hearne’s line that migrants will “rebuild the economy and make society fairer” Dooley calls nonsense benefiting big employers at the very top — tracing the globalisation agenda to Irishman Peter Sutherland and a “race to the bottom” on ordinary workers’ wages.
  • On “scapegoating immigrants won’t solve the housing crisis”, Dooley agrees immigration didn’t cause it but says basic demand and supply means it has exacerbated it — and a government unwilling to restrict inflows will “push along regardless”, backed by opposition parties he says have abandoned the indigenous Irish working class.
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Hi everyone

Hi everyone. I'd like to talk to you today about an exchange between a journalist from Grip Media and the Social Democrat housing spokesman Rory Hearn who was asked a question in relation to immigration and its effects on housing in terms of putting accommodation costs up with higher rents and higher house prices. And he said that this is an important discussion to have. and he said that housing and homelessness was in chaos in advance of the mass immigration chaos which I agree.

With because this was driven in part by the policies of the troa that came here to made make a condition of the bailout to stop building public housing and of course the government for years and years has sold off so much of our public housing much is now in the hands of private landlords but to claim that it doesn't have an effect on the housing market is completely and utterly wrong. They would tell you black is white and.

White is black by doubling down on their mass immigration globalist pro-open borders agenda because he went on to say that it's workingclass immigrants that are impacted most of all in low paid jobs and many are being evicted which is quite right. Many live in overcrowded conditions also. But what he didn't tell you is that one in five workers in Ireland are on low pay. And if you look at the time of co for instance, the central bank at the time reported that.

They needed more cheap labor into Ireland and more migrants had to come to Ireland. Hence we had the influx of the people coming from Ukraine over 120,000 who were beneficiaries of the temporary protection directive. Surprise, surprise. And it opened the door to make more money for the big employers at the expense of ordinary workers. At that time as well, it was an opportunity for labor to address the balance with capital in terms of increasing wages for.

Ordinary people who were struggling. But what was the answer? Yes, bring more migrants into Ireland. That's why one in five workers in Ireland are deemed to be on low pay. and uh Rory Herren will say absolutely nothing about this whatsoever. He said it's migrants that will rebuild the economy and make society fairer. This is absolute nonsense because what this is done doing it benefits at those at the very top of society much as the agenda of.

“That's why one in five workers in Ireland are deemed to be on low pay”

02:34

Globalization pushed forward by an Irishman Peter Sutherlands who

Globalization pushed forward by an Irishman Peter Sutherlands who forgot about any notion of nation sovereignty or control over our borders or let alone our currency or monetary or fiscal policy here in Ireland. But at the same time, this is about a race to the bottom to benefit those as I said at the very top, the big employers that Heron didn't mention. And he said also the scapegoating immigrants is not going to solve the housing crisis. Well, absolutely not.

And this wasn't caused by the housing crisis in terms of the amount of immigrants coming here, but it has in fact exacerbated the issues. basic demand and supply would tell you that as so much for the government working on demand side measures in terms of restricting the amount of people that would come into Ireland to put less pressure on the supply that's already here which has an impact of reducing prices but wait for it the government.

Will push along regardless and a backed up by many of those opposition politicians or so-called opposition parties who are fully signed up to the globalist agenda and have no interest in representing the indigenous Irish working-class people here. That's why people have turned away from them. Maybe instead of being a self-proclaimed housing expert, they should come up with some facts and deal with facts rather than pushing an ideological agenda which they're just pursuing every single day of the week and they will tell you black.

Is white when white is black. It's absolute nonsense. But this is what's going on in Ireland. pushed through many of the universities and pushed then in through to the cabal in Dal Eron and many of these are very well suited to go on many mainstream media programs to spout this absolute nonsense which is part of the agenda to frame the whole agenda around the advancement of globalization in Ireland. Well, facts are they should be standing up for.

Working-class people. And they're not because they're more interested in pursuing this agenda rather than standing up for the Irish workingclass people. But again, what you expect from any of these parties who are just part of the same corrupt Irish political establishment. More nonsense coming from them. But again, as I said, what would you expect? So, thanks again for all the supporting my videos and I'll talk to you all soon. Slongapo.

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11 Jul 2026 · Housing · 4:58

Social Democrats housing “expert” ignores mass immigration impacts.

A Grip Media journalist asks Social Democrats housing spokesman Rory Hearne whether immigration is pushing up rents and house prices — Dooley agrees the chaos predates mass immigration, but argues that denying it has any effect on the housing market is telling you “black is white and white is black”.

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TL;DR
01
Hearne concedes housing and homelessness were in chaos before mass immigration — Dooley agrees, citing Troika bailout conditions that stopped public-house building and council stock sold into private landlords’ hands — but calls the claim that it has no market effect “completely and utterly wrong”.
02
Hearne says working-class immigrants in low-paid jobs are hit hardest, many evicted or overcrowded; Dooley’s counter: one in five Irish workers is on low pay, and during Covid the Central Bank called for more cheap labour — followed by over 120,000 arrivals from Ukraine under the temporary protection directive.
03
Hearne’s line that migrants will “rebuild the economy and make society fairer” Dooley calls nonsense benefiting big employers at the very top — tracing the globalisation agenda to Irishman Peter Sutherland and a “race to the bottom” on ordinary workers’ wages.
04
On “scapegoating immigrants won’t solve the housing crisis”, Dooley agrees immigration didn’t cause it but says basic demand and supply means it has exacerbated it — and a government unwilling to restrict inflows will “push along regardless”, backed by opposition parties he says have abandoned the indigenous Irish working class.
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Transcript · auto-captions, polish pending

Hi everyone

Hi everyone. I'd like to talk to you today about an exchange between a journalist from Grip Media and the Social Democrat housing spokesman Rory Hearn who was asked a question in relation to immigration and its effects on housing in terms of putting accommodation costs up with higher rents and higher house prices. And he said that this is an important discussion to have. and he said that housing and homelessness was in chaos in advance of the mass immigration chaos which I agree.

With because this was driven in part by the policies of the troa that came here to made make a condition of the bailout to stop building public housing and of course the government for years and years has sold off so much of our public housing much is now in the hands of private landlords but to claim that it doesn't have an effect on the housing market is completely and utterly wrong. They would tell you black is white and.

White is black by doubling down on their mass immigration globalist pro-open borders agenda because he went on to say that it's workingclass immigrants that are impacted most of all in low paid jobs and many are being evicted which is quite right. Many live in overcrowded conditions also. But what he didn't tell you is that one in five workers in Ireland are on low pay. And if you look at the time of co for instance, the central bank at the time reported that.

They needed more cheap labor into Ireland and more migrants had to come to Ireland. Hence we had the influx of the people coming from Ukraine over 120,000 who were beneficiaries of the temporary protection directive. Surprise, surprise. And it opened the door to make more money for the big employers at the expense of ordinary workers. At that time as well, it was an opportunity for labor to address the balance with capital in terms of increasing wages for.

Ordinary people who were struggling. But what was the answer? Yes, bring more migrants into Ireland. That's why one in five workers in Ireland are deemed to be on low pay. and uh Rory Herren will say absolutely nothing about this whatsoever. He said it's migrants that will rebuild the economy and make society fairer. This is absolute nonsense because what this is done doing it benefits at those at the very top of society much as the agenda of.

“That's why one in five workers in Ireland are deemed to be on low pay”

Globalization pushed forward by an Irishman Peter Sutherlands who

Globalization pushed forward by an Irishman Peter Sutherlands who forgot about any notion of nation sovereignty or control over our borders or let alone our currency or monetary or fiscal policy here in Ireland. But at the same time, this is about a race to the bottom to benefit those as I said at the very top, the big employers that Heron didn't mention. And he said also the scapegoating immigrants is not going to solve the housing crisis. Well, absolutely not.

And this wasn't caused by the housing crisis in terms of the amount of immigrants coming here, but it has in fact exacerbated the issues. basic demand and supply would tell you that as so much for the government working on demand side measures in terms of restricting the amount of people that would come into Ireland to put less pressure on the supply that's already here which has an impact of reducing prices but wait for it the government.

Will push along regardless and a backed up by many of those opposition politicians or so-called opposition parties who are fully signed up to the globalist agenda and have no interest in representing the indigenous Irish working-class people here. That's why people have turned away from them. Maybe instead of being a self-proclaimed housing expert, they should come up with some facts and deal with facts rather than pushing an ideological agenda which they're just pursuing every single day of the week and they will tell you black.

Is white when white is black. It's absolute nonsense. But this is what's going on in Ireland. pushed through many of the universities and pushed then in through to the cabal in Dal Eron and many of these are very well suited to go on many mainstream media programs to spout this absolute nonsense which is part of the agenda to frame the whole agenda around the advancement of globalization in Ireland. Well, facts are they should be standing up for.

Working-class people. And they're not because they're more interested in pursuing this agenda rather than standing up for the Irish workingclass people. But again, what you expect from any of these parties who are just part of the same corrupt Irish political establishment. More nonsense coming from them. But again, as I said, what would you expect? So, thanks again for all the supporting my videos and I'll talk to you all soon. Slongapo.

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