Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party)
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I thank Deputy Lahart and the Cathaoirleach. The hoarding issue is very interesting. I have a friend in the UK who is from an architecture background and now works with people who engage in hoarding. One of the issues we talk about often is that councils in the UK have started to set up specialised units to deal with this issue. Hoarding is a growing disease because we all own more stuff now than we did in the past and hoarding behaviour often links into trauma and how it presents. Councils in the UK have these specialised units and are starting to take the issue very seriously. Is this something we should be looking at in Ireland?