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

A case I have raised with the Taoiseach and repeatedly with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, will come up again in the courts on Friday. It concerns Jacqueline and her husband. Her husband works for a semi-State company and they have two children, one of whom has special needs. Jacqueline and her husband will be going in front of a judge as their landlord is seeking an enforcement order to evict them from the home they have lived in all their lives. I have written to the Minister. He says he is sorry, but there is nothing he can do because the couple are over the social housing income threshold. Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council cannot offer the couple social housing and says it cannot purchase the house, even though it is for sale, which is the reason Jacqueline and her family are being evicted. Will the Taoiseach provide them with a letter to bring to the judge explaining there is now a solution, which he has announced today, for their situation? They got a deferment four weeks ago because there was some prospect of the house being bought, which the Minister then informed us could not happen-----

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