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

The Government has made the brutal and heartless decision to cast thousands of individuals, families, children and, increasingly often, elderly, vulnerable and sick people into homelessness, with all the suffering, hardship and fear that involves. At the very minimum, the Government should allow this House to take a vote on that decision. It should allow everyone to stand up and be counted in respect of a decision to inflict so much suffering on people. I ask the Government to allow this week, as a matter of urgency, a debate on this matter in order that we can hear from the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what he proposes to do to stop more families being driven into homelessness and to stop this absolutely brutal and disastrous situation getting even worse, which it is guaranteed to do as a result of the Government's decision.

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