Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I have met the soon-to-be former residents of the unauthorised structure on Liberty Lane, in Dublin 8, and I have spoken to the fire officers who checked out the place. They have very serious concerns about this unauthorised structure. Planning enforcement from Dublin City Council, DCC, has ordered it to be closed, and 27 people will be without homes in the week before Christmas. My question to the Taoiseach is what consequences in respect of criminal negligence there are for a landlord like Cathal Garrad, who rented this unauthorised structure to 27 tenants knowing that it was a fire danger? Will the State move against landlords who exploit the housing crisis to profiteer from it in this way in order to prevent anybody else doing what this landlord has done? If there are no consequences, why would others not follow suit?

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