Should Housing be a Constitutional Right?

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The Dail voted to defeat a Solidarity-PBP Bill that called for housing to be constitutional right.

The bill was defeated by 73 votes to 37. Instead it will now be sent to the Oireachtas Finance Committee for consideration.

TD Richard Boyd Barrett has called the government “shameful” for not supporting the Bill and have it ratified.

The Constitutional Convention in 2014 voted to have the right to housing, social security, and essential health care “expressly stated” in the Constitution.

With a housing crisis gripping Ireland with 8,000 people living in emergency accommodation, Boyd Barrett said he is dumbfounded that the government would not support the Bill.

However is it the responsibility of the government to ensure that people are entitled to a house? Should people not take responsibility for their own affairs and not look to the tax payer to come to their rescue.

Have we created a culture of entitlement in Ireland where people feel it is acceptable to look to the state to provide for them?

Should housing be a constitutional right?

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