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

This is a priority question and the senior Minister is not here, which I find unacceptable.

On Friday week I will accompany to the court Jackie and her husband - he has worked all his life for a State company and they have two kids - for a case involving an enforcement order, following which they will most likely be evicted from their home having done nothing wrong. Because they are slightly over the income threshold, they are not entitled to HAP or social housing and are expected to live in their car in a couple of weeks' time. Added to that can be Tathony House, with 35 residents facing eviction, and Rathmines Road, with about a dozen facing eviction. All this is happening and the Government continues to allow families and working people - decent people who have done nothing wrong - to be evicted into homelessness. What will the Government do to stop this shameful scandal?

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