Ireland's new generation of TDs press for solution to housing crisis

Labour’s Eoghan Kenny said: 'The average age of a person buying a house in Ireland now is 39-years-old. That’s too old.'

Labour’s Eoghan Kenny is the first TD to be born in the 21st century. File picture: Chani Anderson

Newly elected Gen Z TDs are already pressing for key committee appointments in the 34th Dáil, as the new political generation highlights solving the housing crisis as a key priority.

A slew of TDs under 30 were elected in November, including Fianna Fáil’s Albert Dolan, Sinn Féin’s Louis O’Hara, and Labour’s Eoghan Kenny — the first TD to be born in the 21st century.