Sir, – The proposal to insert a right to housing into the Constitution should be a non-starter.
Any such amendment would inevitably transfer powers to allocate public resources from the elected government to the judiciary. In a properly functioning democracy, the allocation of public resources raised via taxation should be made within the political system, not the judicial system.
Columnists and correspondents in your paper have established convincingly that there is not a constitutional impediment to the many measures that can be taken to tackle our housing crisis. – Yours, etc,
DECLAN DOYLE,
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