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

If this Government were to be dissolved, it would at last open up the possibility that we could take the sort of radical emergency measures that are necessary to address the housing crisis and finally depart from the failed strategy, pursued by successive Fine Gael governments, of favouring the interests of speculators, developers, vulture funds and corporate landlords, who are profiteering and benefiting from the housing misery that tens of thousands of people are suffering. I not only urge people to vote no confidence in this Government but, more importantly, given there probably are the numbers, to do as we did with the water charges, that is, to get out on the street where people power undoes the terrible things a Government is trying to impose on them, because they have no choice. The Taoiseach did not answer the question. If he were faced with eviction, had nowhere to go, did not have the money to afford extortionate rents, was not high enough up the social housing list or, indeed, was not eligible for social housing and did not have the money to pay the unaffordable house prices, would he meekly accept he had to be evicted into homelessness or would he be justified in overholding and getting out on the streets to protest against a Government that would allow that to happen?

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