There have been calls for Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to move residents from houses in Sallynoggin due to poor living conditions, which the residents say are leading to respiratory illnesses.
It follows concerns raised by a HSE multi-disciplinary team which wrote to the council last year about mould and damp, as well as anti-social behaviour, fire safety concerns and rats.
The council has said it is engaging with individual tenants with a view to arranging transfers where necessary.
The recurring problem is affecting the health of tenants, including Kate Byrne's family whose children are continuously getting sick.
She received a warning letter last year, due to the number of times her son and daughter had been sick from school.
"Last year I got a letter from the Board of Education to say he's missed too much school. The same with my daughter, but I've showed them photos, I've showed them everything that's been going on in the house and that this is why they're sick. I don't know what else I can do."
Ms Byrne's son is currently being assessed for autism.
Such was the level of concern of the HSE's multi-disciplinary team working with him, that it wrote to Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to highlight the ongoing difficulties facing the family.
It pointed to anti-social behaviour in the area, fire safety concerns with the property, rats and mould.
"...we would again like to highlight the potential health risks to this family and the need for a transfer," it stated.
The mould and damp in Ms Byrne's home travelled upstairs to the home of Georgina Maples and her family.
Ms Maples' son has a heart condition and she has a three-month old baby who she said was very healthy when she was born.
"But then at eight days old, she developed bronchiolitis and she was taken out here by ambulance and she spent eight days in Crumlin with this. I mean, she was brand new, never went out, she only had her grandparents come to visit her and was no massive contact with anybody. So how did she get it?"
Ms Maples whose health would normally be "very good" has also deteriorated in recent years. She has also been hospitalised three times in the last year with breathing difficulties and chest infections.
Kian Beatty has lived in the block for seven years.
His and his partner's mental health has deteriorated significantly due to the anti-social behaviour in the area and the continuous battle with damp and mould.
"It's probably been one of the most challenging experiences of our lives, trying to live here and it's really tough. There's very little support from the council. With these conditions, they're technically supposed to be looking after us, but there isn't the support there."
Shannon Daly's children wake up every morning to wet walls and damp bedclothes.
Despite the council 'warm boarding' the property, the mould keeps reappearing. It is continuously turning up in the kitchen cupboards where the food is stored.
Ms Daly says she simply wants her children to live "normal lives" and to not have to worry about the possibility of mould and damp affecting their health.
People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett believes the residents need to be moved as soon as possible, particularly in response to the HSE letter.
"The HSE wrote a damning letter about the conditions that the children and families living in. All of the tenants have put in letters from doctors, from other medical health professionals saying these conditions are completely unacceptable, nobody should have to live in them, and the Council needs to get them into proper accommodation as a matter of absolute urgency."
Of the tenants we spoke to, they said that not only had their health been impacted, but they had been forced to throw out clothing, footwear and furniture.
They have also spent considerable money on anti-mould sprays and paint, to no avail.
Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council has said it is progressing a redevelopment plan for the properties which is at an early stage.
It added that it was engaging with individual tenants where issues had arisen in their properties with a view to arranging transfers where necessary.
It said offers of alternative accommodation had been made to some tenants.
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