Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Let me share some information with the committee. I have received emails from five local authorities. Since the Minister would not put this information into the public domain over the past number of weeks, I made it my business to contact them directly. Dublin City Council told me that 26 families were removed. None of those people had leases. They were in stock leased by the local authority in section 10-funded temporary accommodation arrangements so they are all homeless. Waterford city and county councils told me that seven families were removed who were in local authority stock but the local authorities said in writing this stock did not meet their needs and, in the view of the local authorities, was temporary accommodation while they were trying to move them somewhere else. Meath County Council told me about an unusual arrangement where the notice to quit of families had expired and they would have been on the streets. The local authority contacted landlords in 15 cases pleading with them to leave the families in those properties with no tenancy to be funded with section 10 emergency funding until they got housed elsewhere. Limerick-----