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

As I said, it is disgusting what the Government has done consigning so many more people who have done nothing wrong to homelessness. On the purchase alternative, which the Government claims it will ramp up, is that to be an instruction to the local authorities to buy houses where people are threatened with eviction or is it simply that the Government will allow it, in which case it will not happen because it is not happening? Every excuse under the sun is being used not to buy houses, certainly in most of Dublin.

Is it, and I have heard from the Minister so far it is not, to extend to people who are not on social housing lists, because people currently above the threshold are being evicted even though they have done nothing wrong and they are not entitled to the purchase in situ scheme, housing assistance payment, HAP, or social housing.

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