The northside of Dublin has been hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic, with more confirmed cases than anywhere else in Ireland.
There have been over 5,700 confirmed cases through north Dublin's community care areas of Dublin north west, Dublin north and Dublin north central.
Sadly, 316 people have lost their lives to the disease throughout the three areas.
Dublin west also accounts for 1,614 cases and 121 deaths from the virus.
Workers' Party representative Eilis Ryan said the figures released by the HSE show the risks of living in overcrowded housing.
She said: "Sixteen thousand people nationwide live in housing shared between 8 or more people.
"Over half of all of these people live in Dublin’s northside or west Dublin - the precise areas the HSE has identified as having higher concentrations of Covid-19 infections.
“To give one example, the percentage of homes with eight or more people living in them is three times higher in the Mountjoy Square area than the national average.”
She continued: "The housing on Dublin’s northside is not more spacious or more suitable for multiple inhabitants than in Foxrock or Mount Merrion. The constituency with the largest number of houses with 8 or more rooms is in fact Dun Laoghaire. This is a simple case of overcrowding.
“It is common sense that, in accommodation - particularly in the private rental sector - where bedrooms, bathrooms and beds are shared by 7, 8 or more adults, “social distancing” becomes impossible."
More than half of the country's coronavirus cases are in Dublin.
