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‘Do-nothing Govt letting people down', rages Opposition amid vow to fight bid to ease rent caps & emergency action call

OPPOSITION parties will fight an easing of rent caps similar to how they battled water charges, it has been claimed. Advertisement 2 The four political parties involved in the 'Raise the Roof' housing campaign announced a protest outside Leinster House next month Credit: Niall Carson/PA Wire It comes after the four political parties involved in the 'Raise the Roof' housing campaign - Sinn Fein, Raise the Roof, which is a trade union and civil society campaign, has been involved in several demonstrations since 2018. The next protest is scheduled from 6pm on June 17 and will coincide with a private member's motion on At a joint media opportunity, Mr O Broin said: 'There is a growing anger and growing frustration at a Government that has completely abandoned communities, abandoned people in housing need, abandoned people in need of affordable childcare, abandoned people in need of vital supports for children with special needs or people accessing education or healthcare. Advertisement Read more in News 'And at the centre of that is an He said opposition parties would counter any move by the Government to reduce protections for tenants under He said that would be 'unacceptable' and added: 'Just as we've done in the past with the likes of Right to Water, we will put pressure inside the Oireachtas and without to force the Government to stand by renters and not Attempts to introduce metered water charges as part of the bailout programme were abandoned in 2017 after numerous mass protests. Advertisement Most read in Irish News Breaking Social Democrats TD Rory Hearne said the housing crisis has deepened into a 'social catastrophe' and disaster'. He said his party would be 'actively and vociferously' opposing any attempt to remove rent caps. Labour TD Marie Sherlock said there was a need for 'radical change' in housing delivery, adding: 'The level of despair out there is absolutely incredible; a degree of fatalism that housing will not be fixed in this country - and it has to be.' 2 Sinn Fein's Eoin O Broin called for emergency action on housing Credit: Niall Carson/PA Wire Advertisement