Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I answered the Deputy's question. I said that every case is individual and people should seek the best advice they can get from organisations such as Threshold, Free Legal Advice Centres and others. In some cases, people overhold, and in some cases the landlord will accept that, may say he or she understands they have not found a place yet and will let them overhold as long as they continue to pay the rent. That happens all the time. It is not something new. It has been happening for as long as I can remember. Some cases go to the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, where both sides are heard and then there is a determination order. Only then can it go to court. The only place in Ireland where an eviction order can actually be handed down, in Ireland, is in court. That is the system. I give the best advice I can to anybody who comes to me for advice.

The Deputy is wrong on one thing. If the motion of confidence tomorrow fails and the Opposition is successful, the Government is not dissolved. The Dáil is dissolved and that means the eviction ban will lapse anyway. The Deputy will have to fight for his seat; we all will. However, if the polls are to be believed, the Deputy will probably be the only one to survive as most of the People Before Profit seats will be taken by Sinn Féin.

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