'PILLORIED' VID COMES BACK TO HAUNT BROWNE

'Tone deaf' advice WAS signed off by housing department

- BY DARRAGH MCDONAGH

A CONTROVERSIAL social media video that Minister James Browne claimed had nothing to do with his department was co-scripted by an agency under his remit and approved by Department of Housing officials prior to publication, internal emails reveal.

The video, posted online last month, used the same script that was sent to the department for approval on August 11. In the clip, two young people offer advice for anyone forced to move in with their family due to the housing crisis.

They suggested that young people should "help out around the house" by agreeing to do some "household chores".