Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

This morning, the Taoiseach has engaged in political theatrics and performative anger. He spent more time lambasting the Labour Party than he did setting out what the Government has achieved on housing, yet he is accusing us in opposition of politicising housing. That sums up the problem with the Government. Housing is political. In choosing to lift the eviction ban in three days' time, the Taoiseach has engaged in making a political choice, and it is the wrong choice. It is a political choice that is catastrophic for the thousands of families and renters now facing the cliff edge of eviction. It is a wrong choice which follows from a series of wrong choices he and his Government have made on housing. He acknowledged the Government should have done more, but it has not done so and housing charities and local authorities are now warning that homeless services may collapse from Saturday. The Government's policy has failed and that is why we in the Labour Party have tabled a motion of no confidence. It is the responsible thing to do in opposition when we see the scale of the catastrophe facing us. It is the first such motion we have tabled in many years, by the way-----

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