Complaints sent to Ministers after start of academic year show housing crisis having a significant impact
They added: “It is well below standard but for the opportunity to be in university, it seemed worth it. The shed is shared and cramped with patchy WiFi ... This is all amounting to be a shoddy experience”.
A cost-of-living guide issued for the 2022/23 academic year by TU Dublin states that annual rent would be €5,724, while a UCD guide said median accommodation costs would be €1,025 per month or €9,225 per academic year. “We were prepared to pay these monies but, when the booking needed to be completed and my daughter logged on, she was referred to [alternative] accommodation and that cost was €14,600,” they said, adding that this was due to the accommodation being for the full year rather than the academic year.
In late August, a student in Maynooth wrote that they had “tried everything possible to get accommodation within a reasonable commute” to the university, but that their search “has been fruitless”. In September, the Minister for Education received a phone call from a constituent on behalf of their son who was studying at the University of Galway. The student was told the university “only had 2,000 places to accommodate students” and that he would not receive one of these.
A parent of a Trinity College Dublin student said they found it “impossible” to find affordable accommodation in Dublin for their child. Another parent described their son’s life as a student as “sleeping on a friend’s sofa” and in B & when possible at a cost of €90 per night.
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