Election 2024: Rent — 'I’m paying €520 a month...you would hope to be warm in the winter'

Eilis Walsh would love to be able to buy her own home but she does not see that becoming a reality in the next five years

Eilis Walsh: 'We would love to move, but the prices of rental accommodation in Limerick now are just as bad as in Dublin. There is a rental crisis here too.'. Picture: Brian Arthur

“I shouldn’t have to compromise on heating to pay the rent. They should just be basic things."

Those are the words of Eilis Walsh, aged 29, who has been renting a room in an apartment complex in Limerick city for nearly three years.