Ger from Wexford has been looking for housing in Dublin for three weeks without success. He buys the newspaper every day and has waited in queues of 100150 people to view apartments.

"My one question is: who is responsible for the crisis? Is it landlordism or the county council? Common sense dictates that if you have 17,000 students then you should have places for them or you won't have 17,000 students in your university."