Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Tánaiste needs to get his head out of the clouds and look at and listen to what is happening on the ground. In his own constituency and throughout the State, there are people who will become homeless in nine days' time. They are from all sectors. They are young and old. We have letters about children who were born a couple of weeks ago, from mothers who have nowhere to go on 1 April. The Tánaiste can stand up here and imitate Deputy Ó Broin all he wants but that is what is happening on the ground. The Tánaiste voted for this. He voted for that mother and her newborn child to become homeless in a couple of days' time.

Every single one of those opposite did the same. The Tánaiste says there are no solutions. We will give him a very simple solution to start off with. What about this? Next Tuesday when we propose legislation to stop that mother and her child and many thousands like her being evicted from 1 April, vote for it.

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