Watch: Protester Martin Leahy takes guitar to Leinster House every Thursday to highlight housing crisis

Every Thursday, Martin Leahy travels to Dublin from Ballinadee, Co. Cork. He unpacks his instrument a few feet from the pedestrian entrance to Leinster House on Kildare St, tunes it up, hits a few chords and begins singing. He sings the same song on a loop, pausing for a few minutes between each rendition. The song, which Leahy wrote himself, is titled: ‘Everyone Should Have A Home’.

The chorus goes: “Everyone should have a home, in this world, in this life, it’s a basic human right, to have a dignified place to call your own. Safe and warm where you belong, everyone should have a home.”