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:

As the Senator says, the right to housing would apply to everybody but it is not a right to be given a house or a right to some specific housing support from the State. It means that generally, citizens should be able to access housing and the State should create the conditions whereby people can access housing. That can be about housing being affordable or rent being secure or it can be about State support if that is needed in a particular case. A constitutional amendment could not and should not be that prescriptive about someone being given a house by the State. That is where this wording has come from. It is about ensuring the realisation of the right to housing, so people can realise their right to access housing.

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