Cork Housing Action Group Have No Intention Of Ending Occupation Of City Council Chamber
The group of four protesters entered the chamber at 11am this morning to urge City Hall to declare the housing and homeless crisis a National Emergency.
They are also calling on the local authority to write to government to ask them to set up a National Emergency Committee to deal with it and have condemned what they describe as the waste of public money on projects such as the recent We Are Cork campaign.
A spokesperson for City Hall said the protesters are trespassing and say it is a matter for the Gardaí.
Speaking to RedFM News, one of the protesters Martina Murphy say the group are not going to leave the chamber:
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