Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

In the middle of the worst housing crisis ever, a mother of two children who refuses to make herself homeless has been incarcerated at Mountjoy for 70 days at the request of a vulture fund. When will we do something for Ms Yvonne Walsh and the many hundreds of people facing similar treatment over the summer? The banks and vulture funds will be relentless. Ms Walsh has written to both the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste on three occasions but received no answer. She is incarcerated but is trying to maintain a home over her head and that of her two young children, who have not seen her. She has been there for 70 days and she will have been there for another 50 days when we return from the recess.

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