Thomas Pringle TD
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PQ: Gov’t lacking interest in ESC Rights incorporating Right to Housing

constitution of ireland

Question No. 406

Chun an Aire Comhshaoil, Pobail agus Rialtais Áitiúil:
To the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government:

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will promote the right to housing as part of the economic, social and cultural rights approach to the long-term solution of homelessness and to the overall housing crisis here; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
– Thomas Pringle.

For WRITTEN answer on Tuesday, 17th May, 2016.

Ref No: 10305/16

REPLY

Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (Deputy Simon Coveney)

The Eighth Report of the Convention on the Constitution: Economic, Social and Cultural (ESC) Rights , available at the link below , recommended that the State progressively realise economic, social and cultural rights subject to maximum available resources, that this duty be recognisable by the courts and th at specific additional rights, including the right to housing , be inserted into the Constitution.

https://www.constitution.ie/AttachmentDownload.ashx?mid=5333bbe7-a9b8-e311-a7ce-005056a32ee4

The recommendation for a right to housing raises substantial questions on , for example, the balance of rights, p roper governance and resource implications for the State. Therefore, as set out in The P rogramme for a Partnership Government , available at the link below, th e recommendation regarding the right to housing contained in the Eighth Report of the Convention on the Constitution: Economic, Social and Cultural (ESC) Rights will be referred to the Oireachtas Committee on Housing for in-depth consideration .

http://www.merrionstreet.ie/MerrionStreet/en/ImageLibrary/Programme_for_PartnershipGovernment.pdf

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