Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Homelessness Issues: Discussion

Mr. John-Mark McCafferty:

Clearly the ban was a respite and it gave breathing space to both statutory services and voluntary services. The moratorium was not going to last forever. There are arguments on both sides around the long-term versus the short-term impacts of the ban. We said that the "least worst" option would be to extend the ban. It came to an end and we are seeing a staggered impact in terms of notices of termination. We are responding to them to the best of our capabilities, as I am sure everyone around the table is. We monitor the position in relation to the notices that are now maturing. What we do goes back to the conversation we had earlier about the flow and volume of notices.

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