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

I wish to raise a scandalous case of a mass eviction at Shannon Arms in Limerick. Up to 60 families are facing eviction by a consortium of landlords. Four of the landlords are evicting on the grounds of sale. Notices of eviction were signed at the same place and witnessed by the same solicitor on the same day.

Another landlord, the millionaire owner of Supermac's, Pat McDonagh, is evicting his tenants on the grounds of renovation, a claim backed up by a company run by his son-in-law. The suspicion is that the other landlords are selling their properties to Pat McDonagh and that all the rents will be hiked. Clearly, they are using this to evade the Tyrrelstown amendment in order to have a mass eviction of families in the interests of making a profit. What is the Government going to do about this?

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