Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is not appropriate, I am sure Ms O'Donoghue will agree, that the State should subsidise substandard accommodation, or in some cases slum accommodation, and I have seen this with my own eyes. Unfortunately until recently all of the State agencies and some local authorities stood off this issue. Whatever about giving good practice to the Department's people working in the area what about the bigger picture of knitting together the efforts of the various State agencies to ensure they are not shelling out considerable sums of money, for slums in some cases, to very dishonourable landlords?