Slow progress on replacing blocks of flats with new houses for Sheriff Street residents.
Six years ago, the government promised to do something about the problems in the area of Sheriff Street, behind the Dublin Financial Services Centre.
The promise was to demolish the flats, relocate the tenants and to build new houses in the area for those who wanted to stay.
Behind the Dublin Financial Centre, one of the capital's symbols of power, progress and wealth, hides Sheriff Street, symbol of poverty, dilapidation and urban decay.
While two hundred housing starts have been approved by planning authorities, a third of the people in the area are still living in the dilapidated flats. These people say that they are living in squalor as the flat complexes are being allowed to run down. Progress to move them has been too slow.
Tenants of Sheriff Street flats Thomas Carroll and Marina Doody describe living in rat infested conditions.
It's horrible the way we have to live.
On a walk about of the complex, Minister of State at the Department of the Environment Emmet Stagg made a promise to residents that he would investigate some of these problems and speed up the process of rehousing them.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 11 February 1993. The reporter is Paul Reynolds.
