Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There are great pressures being put on people who have children in third level education needing accommodation. It has come to my attention that students who were previously paying for accommodation for the college year, which is approximately nine months, are now being forced to keep their accommodation for the whole 12 months. College students who wanted to earn a few euro for the following school year or for travelling are now being forced to use that money to cover the rent on their accommodation over the summer months. The accommodation providers are afraid to let out their property to somebody else for that period in case the RTB says that person cannot be moved out. They are now telling students they must take the house for 12 months instead of nine. That has put another financial burden on parents of students going to college.

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