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

The Government was under pressure and was belatedly forced to bring in a ban on evictions, and I am glad that was the case. As I pointed out in the past week, it now transpires from the legislation that any person whose termination date on a notice to quit came before the date of the emergency period commencing will not be protected from eviction. If you have already passed your termination date and you are overholding, as many people are advised to do by the councils and local authorities, you will not be protected. I hope that is an oversight. We have an amendment submitted to the Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022 tomorrow but we only have 60 minutes for the Committee and remaining Stages. I want clarification from the Government on this or, alternatively, the time to take the amendments tomorrow for the Committee and remaining Stages so that the Bill can be amended.

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