Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister acknowledged that the ending of the emergency ban on evictions is likely to lead to an increase in homelessness from April. In the first half of last year 2,700 notices of eviction were issued and we expect that when we get the figures tomorrow and later this month for the second half of last year the total may be 5,000. Given that our emergency accommodation system is almost at breaking point, what is the Minister's contingency plan to deal with the rising level of presentations, both in terms of preventing people from becoming homeless and assisting people to exit from homelessness?

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