Around three hundred students have protested in Dublin city centre calling on the government to build student accommodation and to cut the contribution fee which third level students pay.
Speaking to RTÉ News, Alex Balfe, President of the students union at Maynooth University, said:"If a student is lucky enough to find a room in a house they're paying €800 or €900 a month and we've got multiple complaints about mould in rooms, about unsafe landlords." "A long-term investment in the unstable higher education sector is an option for Government right now. Finance can no longer be used as the excuse, but rather it’s down to the priorities of our politicians."Students are drowning in costs and many cannot find a place to live near a college and they have to commute for hours, Sinn Féin Leader Mary Lou McDonald told the Dáil.
"You want to get your way into office by creating a false impression about our country and what it is like," he said.
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