Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

This is a question for the Tánaiste or perhaps the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. As they are aware, residents at the Leeside apartment complex in Cork are facing what is effectively a mass eviction at the hands of a vulture fund, a matter of concern to them but also to many others, given that homelessness in the country stands on the brink of 10,000 people. Is it sufficient that, for legal protection, residents of this kind have guidelines that have been handed down? Should there not be legislation which gives them firm rights in law, including the actual banning of economic evictions of this kind? Is that not more appropriate legislation?

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