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

People need to know whether the Government's partial eviction ban will be extended after 31 March. We need to have a proper eviction ban such as the one we had during Covid. We know for a fact that the number one cause of homelessness is eviction from private rental accommodation. This is from Focus Ireland. We know that eviction bans work. They are not the full answer to the housing crisis but we saw the impact during Covid when the figures dropped from about 9,000 to about 6,000 before rising.

We are heading towards having 12,000 people, almost 4,000 of whom are children, homeless. Will the Government commit that those people will not be evicted and we will have a proper eviction ban as long as this housing crisis lasts while we build social and affordable housing and use vacant properties?

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