Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

No it is not. It is a legacy of the landlord or whoever owns the house. There is individual responsibility on this too. There is also the RTB and there are regulatory authorities. The regulatory authorities should be acting on something like that. There is the local authority, in respect of the residential area involved and there is a whole range of regulatory frameworks that govern that type of behaviour and it should be stamped out. There is no place for that and I do not condone that at all.

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