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

What happens is a very practical, fair and humanitarian thing. If a case comes before a judge and a person is facing eviction into homelessness, what a judge will often do – it is up to them to hear all sides of the case and do the kind of thing we do not allow ourselves to do in this House – is to say they are not issuing the order for eviction and that they are going to allow some time for a solution to be found. That is what I was referring to. It would be very rare for that not to be the case. It would be useful for the Deputy to ask the question of solicitors and his legal contacts as to how many actual eviction orders are issued in this State every year. One would have the impression from some of the Deputies in this House that it is tens of thousands.

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