Sinn Féin's Westminster Seats, Social Housing  - with Eoin Ó Broin and Fintan O'Toole

Sinn Féin's Westminster Seats, Social Housing - with Eoin Ó Broin and Fintan O'Toole

Is it time for the state to build much more social housing? Sinn Fein TD Eoin O Broin feels that it is and he has written a book about how that can be achieved. But first Eoin debates with Fintan O'Toole about Fintan's controversial column. In the column Fintan argued that Sinn Féin should give up its Westminster seats and allow for the election anti-Brexit replacements in time to thwart Boris Johnson's drive towards No Deal.

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