TDs Call For 'Radical Action' To Tackle Housing Crisis

TDs have called for "radical action" to tackle the housing and homeless emergency, according to an Irish Congress of Trade Unions TD lobby campaign.

The Congress lobby campaign focused on TDs in Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and Independents in government and sought their support for the Congress Charter for Housing Rights, which called for the declaration of a housing emergency, an end to evictions into homelessness, action of security of tenure and rent certainty and establishing a legal right to housing.


The lobby campaign showed the strongest support for the measures outlined in the Charter amongst Fianna Fail TDs, with the overwhelming majority of the parliamentary party stating they were 'very supportive' or 'broadly supportive'. There was also support among Fine Gael TDs and some independents some of the measures. The lobby campaign took place between February-June 2018.

Speaking about the results of the lobby campaign, Congress President Sheila Nunan said: "We're told the land is there and the resources can be found. It now seems clear that the political appetite for a change of direction is also there."

(CM/MH)