Dublin Central Labour Senator Marie Sherlock joins Donie Tarrant to discus student accommodation crisis. Senator Sherlock explains that students find themselves priced out of a rental market facing severe shortages, student accommodation operators are being granted planning permission to allow tourist and other short stay tenants during term time, effectively creating another form of co-living in the Dublin Central area. As well as being galling to students and the community at large, it flies in the face of the Planning Act.

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