Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, Independents 4 Change) | Oireachtas source

The Davitt complex is one complex that we are very clear on because we have heard it directly from the horse's mouth, the tenants living there. We know it has happened elsewhere in the city. We are going in a very serious direction if we are going to have segregation. Those in block D are all council tenants. Tuath Housing is managing the 26 homes in block D that do not have access to the basic amenities in that complex. That cannot be allowed to happen and it must change. It was raised at a meeting of Dublin City Council last week and the housing manager said that they were told it was €81.50 to avail of the amenities in the in the complex and €75 for car parking spaces. These tenants are hospital workers and actors who do not have huge amounts of money to pay these things. Either the council should refund that or the situation on access to amenities should be sorted out at the planning stage. This was a build-to-rent standard where the spaces in the apartments were reduced on the basis that the tenants would have access to amenities. This needs to be dealt with.

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