Sir, – Successive governments, most prominently our current Government, have shirked their constitutionally enshrined responsibility to strike a balance between property rights and the “exigencies of the common good”, the latter phrase taken directly from article 43 of the Constitution. The homelessness crisis demands a governmental response that lives up to this constitutional imperative.
Is there any mechanism that can force a Government to live up to its responsibilities in this regard?
Marching on the streets of Dublin does not seem to cut it. – Yours, etc,
MICHAEL STUART,
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Malahide,
Co Dublin.