12,000 people live in houses with no indoor flushing toilet

DESPITE the building boom of the past decade at least 12,000 people live in houses with no indoor flushing toilet while double that number have no bath or shower.

A half million people live in homes with leaking roofs, or that suffer from dampness or with rotting window frames, while around 250,000 say they don’t get enough light.

This compares with Spain, which had a similar housing boom for which it is now suffering also, where no resident lives in a house without a flushing toilet or shower, according to the EU survey.