SF In Call To Ban Co-Living

Housing Bill to go before Dail

- Ciara Phelan

The party’s housing spokesman Eoin O Broin will move a Bill in the Dail today that could also see build-to-rent developments banned.

Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien has previously called co-living “bonkers” while in Opposition but has not banned the practice and instead announced a review.

Mr O Broin said: “It was not just the Housing Minister that was adamantly opposed.

“Micheal Martin, the current Taoiseach, referred to this kind of accommodation as ‘battery cage-type accommodation’.