Incidents of Oireachtas members sleeping in cars not widespread, says Taoiseach

"I don’t think there are too many TDs sleeping in cars, but there are pressures in terms of accommodation, of that there is no doubt.”

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Incidents of TDs and Senators sleeping in their cars because they cannot get a hotel room is not a “widespread phenomenon”, Taoiseach Micheal Martin has said.

Mr Martin, speaking in Co Cork on Monday, said he was not “familiar” with the report in the Daily Mail that an Oireachtas member based in the west of Ireland had to sleep in his car for two nights after failing to find a hotel room in Dublin.