Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In the Tánaiste's four-minute diatribe, he did not answer the question I put to him, or the question Teachta McDonald put to the Taoiseach yesterday. Where are these individuals going to go? The Tánaiste may want to focus on me or Deputy Ó Broin or whatever; I am focusing on people like this parent with two children who South Dublin County Council told there is no emergency accommodation available in that local authority. The Dublin Regional Homeless Executive said there is no available accommodation in the county for their family size. The local authority said there are no options and no vacancies in the hotel system and that those constituents should present to their local Garda station for a safe place to stay or ask family or friends. If it were not for the intervention of my colleague, Deputy Ward, that is exactly where that family would be - on the floor of a Garda station. This is before the Government made the cruel and heartless decision to lift the ban.

Thousands of evictions will come live in the next number of weeks and months. I have a simple question for the Tánaiste. Where are people going to go? Local authority after local authority is telling us there is no emergency accommodation.

The Government has made a conscious decision to make them homeless, knowing there is nowhere for them to go.

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