Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Sallynoggin. Since I raised this, the people are still in there and still looking to get out. By the way, the Rialto Action Group took a legal case against Dublin City Council some years ago because these kinds of conditions are a breach of the European Social Charter. The group won the case. The Sallynoggin case is similar. These people's rights are being breached by the local authority. Since I raised the case here last week - it was televised and so on - I have been inundated with messages from people living in similar conditions of damp, black mould and rodent infestations in local authority housing. It is not good enough. At the very least, there should be an instruction from the Minister for housing that such people will be prioritised to be rehoused, particularly where children are involved. Some are being hospitalised or they have to go to doctors. They are getting medical testimony saying they should not be living in these conditions, yet they are still not being rehoused. Something needs to be done about this as a matter of urgency.

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