Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will try to be brief. I, like every other Member, have a constituency office and consistently for the past few years but particularly for the past six years I have had constituent after constituent come into my office to ask me what they should do. I do not have an answer. A person came into my constituency office on Monday whose landlord is going to increasing their rent by €400 per month in March to the level of the going rent in Dublin. The person was paying €900 per month and increasing the rent by €400 per month will still be under the going rent. I was able to give them some advice. Another person came in straight after that person and they were living in unfit accommodation. They do not want to complain to their landlord because they know if they leave or if they are put out, there is nowhere else for them to go. It is not the failure of this Government alone but the failure in particular of the previous Government. Successive Governments since the founding of this State have failed to address the issue of rents.

There is a crisis and an emergency situation.

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