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

The Government may have voted confidence in itself over the cruel decision to lift the eviction moratorium but Government Deputies would be fools if they thought the public has confidence in them on the housing issue. That is why I hope we will see thousands of people outside the Dáil on Saturday at 1 p.m. for the Cost of Living Coalition's demonstration in response to the Government's decision on the eviction ban. It is not because of performance theatrics from the Opposition, or however the Taoiseach wants to describe it, that people will be there. Just before I came in here I went on daft.ieand myhome.ie. There is one house in the entirety of south Dublin within the housing assistance payment, HAP, limits. The vast majority of them are in the region of €2,400, €2,500, €3,000 and €4,000 a month. That is way above the HAP limits, if people are even entitled to HAP, and completely unaffordable for the vast majority. People are in a hopeless situation but the Government will not control rents and it is still willing to allow people to be evicted into that hopeless situation. In my area there was a handful of local authority houses built last year. What does the Taoiseach expect people to do other than to protest and be angry at the Government's failure to deliver them some sort of hope?

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