Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Thankfully, evictions in this country are relatively uncommon. They need to be done through courts and judges look very favourably on very difficult situations in that regard. Notices to quit are a bit different but if somebody is given a notice to quit, they have rights and they are given a period of time before they have to leave the property they are in. The difficulty with a blanket ban on any evictions is that it just stores up the problem for when the ban is lifted. That is part of what we are experiencing now. I know some people have proposed a blanket ban over the winter period; what then happens in spring? It does not necessarily solve the problem; it just defers it and that makes it worse a little bit later.

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