Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

People in my constituency are receiving eviction notices at a rate beyond anything that I have ever seen before. My office has been receiving calls from people in private rental accommodation, who have been told that their landlords are selling the property and are being given notice to quit. Some of these are people with families, with children in both primary and secondary school. Some are young couples with a baby on the way. Some have an illness or disability or they are carers or lone parents. What they all have in common is there is absolutely nowhere for them to go. Cavan County Council does not have the housing stock or budget to bring the vacant properties up to standard and even if it had, it lacks the builders or tradesmen required to carry out the work to meet this crisis head-on. It cannot keep up with the volume of desperate calls seeking help that it is getting. On daft.ie, there are only ten properties for rent in Cavan. At any given time over the past year, there have been between six and 12. People are competing for these properties. They cannot rent properties.

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