Ahead of the Irish general election, a manipulated video has been shared thousands of times on X, supposedly showing a migrant mocking a white woman over having obtained social housing.
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00:00Are claims of discrimination against Irish people true?
00:07Ahead of the Irish general election, a manipulated video has been shared thousands of times on X
00:14supposedly showing a black woman mocking a white woman over having obtained social housing.
00:21The edited video tries to incite anti-minority sentiments by reversing the two women's testimonies
00:28so it looks like the woman who was granted a house is not showing compassion for the homeless woman.
00:35The misleading clip has attracted comments from people who were angered by her gleeful expression
00:41for being awarded a house before the white woman.
00:45The far-right party Irish Freedom Party has also promoted this misleading clip.
00:50However, this is not true.
00:52The clip was taken from a debate on housing aired by the Irish state broadcaster RTE
00:59featuring single women with children who are or have been homeless.
01:04One of the two women was awarded cooperative housing which was suitable to her situation
01:10while the other was yet to be granted a house due to the circumstances of her son facing long-term illness
01:18meaning she needed a specific alternative type of housing.
01:32As the nation struggles to meet its housing needs,
01:35cooperative housing can be seen as a way to tackle the lack of social and affordable homes.
01:41However, official figures show that in 2023 the government built over 8,000 units of social housing
01:49which is 990 units short of the government's housing policy target.