Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

I have a question on the eviction ban. Let us say that a woman is faced with a choice between not paying some of her family's rent or having her children go cold or hungry this winter. Is she covered by the ban? Can she be evicted? The Tánaiste says that people who do not pay their rent can be evicted. Other Deputies say that people who wilfully do not pay their rent can be evicted. This needs to be clarified and I would like the Taoiseach's view on this question.

Last week, we saw the largest cost-of-living protest so far in the course of this crisis. Approximately 20,000 students walked out of classes last Thursday at 11.11 a.m. to protest the lack of decent student accommodation and the inadequate action being taken by the Government to counter the financial pressures bearing down on them. Will the Taoiseach instruct the Ministers, Deputies Harris and Darragh O'Brien, to meet the students' representatives and consider their demands to make changes or will he decide not to engage in this way and increase the likelihood of a second round before Christmas?

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