Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

The Daft.iereport published yesterday shows that it now costs way more than €20,000 to rent for a year in Cork city. A generation that could not afford to buy its own homes now cannot afford to rent. After the publication of the report, Ronan Lyons said that "among the worst affected cohorts are younger adults, with the median adult age of leaving the parental home having grown almost 50% in the last decade." In other words, since shortly after Fine Gael came to power, if the median average age was 18, it is now close to 27, and if it was 20, it is now close to 30. Does the Taoiseach accept that his Government has let down the under-30s very badly indeed on this issue?

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