Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The accommodation crisis is so bad that travelling performers who were working at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre felt the need to put out a call to art lovers to offer spare rooms to put up artists for the weeks they were performing at the theatre. The daily room rate costs in Dublin hotels is around €210. This would mean two thirds of a week's wages under the basic scheme would go on accommodation just for one night. There is an urgent need for a bursary scheme to help those artists who are travelling and performing artists to cover their accommodation needs. There needs to be a lot more done on that basis, as well as on the point I raised, which is an acceleration of co-operative housing schemes and other schemes to ensure housing is available for artists. Otherwise they will leave our shores.

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