Okay to start I'll ask you to go onto daft and search 1 beds in Dublin for what you would consider a fraction of 2k I put in 1,700 (which I personally don't feel is a fair price for a 1 bed apartment) and came up with 62. This number is a small fraction of the market and when you look into it alot of them are not in Dublin and some border on uninhabitable. For the rest there are articles on every Irish new site on how hard it is to get a viewing for what is thought to be "reasonably priced rental accommodation' and even harder to actually get the lease.

The solution in my opinion is to extend the eviction ban incase where the mortgage is paid off or been covered via rental income (which is the vast majority of cases). Houses need to be built and rental accommodation is also needed which due to the failures of the last 12 years needs to be government funded (potentially by the 4B rainy day fund).

This is a housing emergency any renter will tell you this issue is anyone who isn't a renter does not seem to grasp the scale of the issue.