Senators apologise for Government failure to fix housing crisis

Alya whose family received an eviction notice months before her Leaving Cert, children who have spent year after year in emergency accommodation, "their childhood robbed of the many milestones and memories they should have had"

Senators have apologised on behalf of consecutive governments for failing to fix the housing crisis in the Seanad.

Lynn Ruanne and Eileen Flynn read aloud a gathered testimony from civil society groups which detailed case studies of those facing or experiencing homelessness in the Senate on Wednesday during a Private Members Motion on housing brought forward by the two women and their fellow senators Frances Black and Alice Mary Higgins.