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

I hope the public respond to the Government's cold-hearted decision to lift the eviction ban by coming out in their thousands on the demonstration on 1 April outside the Dáil.

I genuinely want to know what the Minister has to say to people in my area where currently there is no family emergency accommodation at all. For his information, there is a six-month waiting list. If people are made homeless in our area, they are sent to the other side of the city. A woman wrote to me last week who is in Drumcondra in a hostel. She has to get her child to a crèche in Monkstown and if she is late on five days, she will lose her place in the crèche which means she will lose her job because she works as a carer. She has to do that every morning. There is a six-month list. Now we are going to have dozens more people put into that situation with their families and children. What do we say to that woman and others who are going to be in a similar situation?

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