Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Right to Housing: Discussion
Ms Aoife Kelly-Desmond:
Professor O'Cinneide has already touched on this. The extent to which property rights in the Constitution prevent more creative policymaking is a matter constitutional lawyers do not all agree on. It is certainly the case that, in practical terms, there is a chilling effect on more creative legislation due to the extensive protections that are there, with nothing on the other side to balance it.
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