Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 3 November 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion

Ms Rebecca Keatinge:

I referred to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. General Comment No. 4, a seven-page document, sets out what the UN has defined as adequate housing. It is informative and instructive and we refer to it in the course of our own work. On resources, that document also talks about progressive realisation and that is where we have the available resources point. It talks about how a state is expected to achieve this through progressive realisation, within the available resources. I refer the committee to that as well.

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