Bacik's speech sought to create Labour's own spotlight

With the spotlight firmly focused on the drama of a different political party in recent days, Labour's annual conference was always going to find it difficult to wrestle back the attention so badly needed this close to June's local and European elections.

Signposting key policies she believes are central to Labour's housing strategy, Deputy Bacik also said her party wants to re-introduce the no fault eviction ban which ended last year, regulate short-term lets and turn the Land Development Agency into a State construction company. At the start of her address, the Labour leader reminded delegates that 80 years ago her own grandfather Charles Bacik"sought refuge" in Ireland after leaving what was then Czechoslovakia.

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