Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 March 2023
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised)
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
If there is a massive increase in homelessness then we must figure out what is the best way to reverse that. Would the reimposition of an eviction ban for a number of months do that? It probably would not and I think what we would have to do then is step up our activities in other areas such as building more social housing; step up the work that we do to prevent homelessness; step up cost-rental; and put in place a package, which we will do, to encourage small landlords, in particular, to stay in or re-enter the market. If I honestly believed that an eviction ban for four or six months would reduce homelessness then I would have done it in the last four to six months when we had a ban in place so why would reintroducing the ban do it?
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