Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Right to Housing: Discussion
Mr. Gavin Elliott:
That sort of consensus-building will be vital. A referendum cannot be won without that. There will have to be consensus-building among organisations such as ours, which are in the NGO and civil society sector, but there are also groups that are maybe a little less organised such as tenant advocacy groups, housing activists and so on who are on the ground and who will need to be brought into this process as well. They may be even slightly more effective at that sort of messaging than we could be. Groups like this committee also play a vital role in that. Even this discussion is playing a vital role in pushing this forward and reminding the commission and the Government that this is not going away and will not fall off the agenda. It is here to stay.
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