Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

The programme for Government refers to the need to keep families in their homes. So bad is the crisis that not only are families not being kept in their homes but, incredibly, families who are in transitional housing from homelessness - own-door accommodation - are facing eviction from that transitional housing back into homelessness. A large number of families in Tallaght Cross, who are in accommodation provided by Túath Housing and are in various phases of having received notices to quit, are being pursued through the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB. They moved from the nightmare of living in hotels night after night and having to commute to schools to the slightly improved position of having own-door housing. They have been unable to find housing assistance payment, HAP, accommodation because of the crisis, and are now facing having to go back into homelessness. Does the Tánaiste or the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government agree that no families in transitional housing should be pursued through the RTB? Do they agree that these eviction notices should be withdrawn from the families in Tallaght Cross?

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