Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity)
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In 2017, 32% of all queries to Threshold were about eviction notices. In other words, more than 5,000 families or households contacted Threshold that year because they faced losing their homes as a result of threatened eviction from the private rental sector. This was up from 14% of all queries in 2016. It is not realistic to think that 100% of people in this situation came knocking on Threshold's door. That is a subset of the overall total. Similarly, the Residential Tenancy Board's annual report for 2017 shows a massive 35% annual increase in disputes over invalid notices of termination from landlords. Some 41% of termination notices ruled on by the RTB were found to be invalid, in other words, to be attempted illegal evictions. Taken in the round, the Focus Ireland data, the Threshold data and the RTB data certainly show that this is substantial.