The Housing and Homelessness Committee was set up in April 2016 to consider submissions in relation to how to solve the housing crisis; there is further information here, including links to televised Committee sessions:
http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/oireachtasbusiness/committees_list/housing-homelessness/
My submission to the Committee, complete with a list of rather ambitious recommendations, is here:
DNiF submission to Oireachtas Housing Committee 10 May 2016 (1)-3
And our friends at the BRegs Blog will be publishing submissions that they receive, so keep an eye out there as well:
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