Last week, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin joined Dion Fanning for Ireland Unfiltered.
Among other things, the pair discussed the ever-deepening homelessness crisis that currently sees 10,000 Irish people — many of them children — without a roof over their head.
On last night’s Late Late Show, host Ryan Tubridy put this to Varadkar, saying: “You’re looking at Micheál Martin saying on JOE.ie this week that there is genteel, upper-middle class resistance to building local authority housing. Ultimately suggesting that it’s a class problem.”
Varadkar dismissed the criticism by saying that he grew up in Blanchardstown and lives in West Dublin — “there’s a lot of social housing in my constituency and we’re building more of it.”
Asked point blank if he was going to “fix it”, Varadkar mused that “[I] don’t feel it will ever be fully possible to entirely eliminate homelessness but I think we can make it a lot better than it is, especially family homelessness.”
Varadkar himself has also appeared on Ireland Unfiltered, where he discussed the homelessness crisis.
