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Acknowledgements

To Lynn … for everything but mainly for putting up with me.

To Ailbhe, for advice, assistance and patience.

To Iñaki, Maite, Mikel & Irati for poking fun at my procrastination (oh yeah and the great company).

To Izei for the voice message … maitia idatzi dut.

To Cooper, because if I don’t Lynn won’t speak to me.

To Bóthar Buí (Sarah & Kieran) for space to think and inspiration to write (oh yeah and the amazing shrimp).

To Peter O’Connell for good advice and even better contacts.

To Conor, Fiona and all the team at Merrion Press for making the impossible happen.

And to Adrienne in MacCarthy’s bar Castletownbere for the Hewitts Whisky.

To the significant number of housing policy analysts, practitioners, public servants, activists and constituents whose experiences, writings and conversations have given me a wealth of knowledge on which the words that follow are based.

To Michelle, Simon, Nicola, Frank and Paul for comments on the draft.

Deficiencies and Terminology

The original intention of this book was to address the Irish housing system in its entirety, i.e. in both the South and North of Ireland. Unfortunately, due to limitations in my own knowledge, time and space I have had to reduce the focus to just the housing system in Southern Ireland. Throughout the book the term South of Ireland refers to the entity officially known as the Republic of Ireland. Given that I am a Sinn Féin TD and committed Irish republican I doubt you need me to explain the rationale for this.