'Life is stalled' for young teachers due to housing crisis, says TUI delegate

Laura O'Sullivan, a history and geography teacher at Coláiste Pobail Bheanntraí, described the rise in the price of housing materials as 'just insane'.

Teachers have urged a national protest on the housing crisis, declaring that they and their students are “locked out of the market” across the country.

Pay increases to teachers have been "effectively wiped out" by rising housing costs, the TUI said, as members voted on Wednesday to campaign for a referendum providing for the right to housing, along with rent controls, affordable student accommodation, and a State-led building programme for social, affordable, and energy-efficient housing.