Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The temporary ban on evictions is due to expire on Monday. There have been indications that the Government intends to extend it, but I would like to have confirmation that it will. Many tenants are very anxious. Given the direction of the virus at present, the idea that people would be evicted into homelessness and faced with the current pandemic is totally unthinkable from a public health point of view, not to mind a moral point of view. I know a group of tenants in my constituency who are facing a fourth eviction attempt by vulture funds, which are trying to clear them out and maximise the profits they can make. They have been told by the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, that their case will come up in a few weeks. They have done nothing wrong. They need to have the security that they are not going to be evicted in the midst of a pandemic.

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