Rory Hearne (Dublin North-West, Social Democrats)
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I do not believe he does not care. I am so frustrated that measures being introduced in March by the Department and the Government are causing and contributing to this instability and the evictions. There is no reason that the Government could not have implemented in the run-up to these changes a ban on evictions into homeless, which would mean that no one is going to be evicted into homelessness as a result of these changes. Surely that is something that could have been done. They have done it in Belgium. We could do that at a minimum. I do not believe that the Minister is throwing his hands up and accepting this as the human cost of these changes and policies. Surely we cannot accept that.