Chris Andrews (Dublin Bay South, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In 2017, a ruling was made by the European Committee of Social Rights that Ireland had breached Article 16 of the revised European Social Charter. The committee went on to state that the Irish State had failed to ensure the right to housing of an adequate standard for a not insignificant number of families. We are four years on from this ruling and nothing has changed for people paying rent to live in houses and flats throughout the inner city. The conditions people are living in are truly shocking in many cases. Tenants describe living there as a constant battle against mould and damp as well as recent rat infestations. Why has the State not acted to amend its failings? Is the State content to have its citizens living in such deplorable conditions?

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