Ms Pauline Cadell:

I live in the cottages just off Blessington Street, which is in the north inner city. There are about 150 residences. Prior to Covid, a lot of the rental properties would change tenants every six or nine months. Keeping up with the changes took considerable work. We now have more renters than we do homeowners as old people have died off and their cottages have been sold but there is still an instability. People who are renting are not as keen on getting involved in submissions as homeowners are. In addition, we had an incident where one of our people who had worked for An Taisce made a submission against a local landlord who reapplied to Dublin City Council for permission to do something the council had previously turned down as over-development of the site. He did that a few years afterwards and our member who had worked for An Taisce did a submission to Dublin City Council, which turned it down. All the post came to my house as the co-ordinator. The man in question ended up in court because he attempted to assault me as he found out where I-----