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

I acknowledge Mr. Noel Murphy, the outgoing superintendent, and thank him personally for all his immense support and friendship. It has been a pleasure to work with him and we will miss him in the Houses. I wish him and his family well on his retirement.

It appears that the Government is now determined to proceed with the lifting of the no-fault eviction ban from this Saturday, which is in two days' time. While many Ministers were busy castigating the Labour Party for daring to offer constructive ways of addressing the housing crisis yesterday in the Dáil, during that debate I received yet another communication from a constituent who is in dire need. She is a university student. Her parents work in healthcare and construction. They do not qualify for the housing assistance payment, HAP, or rental accommodation scheme, RAS. They are in private rental accommodation, their landlord is selling, and they have nowhere to go from Saturday. She appealed to me because she told me they have applied to countless houses all around Dublin in the hope they would find something to rent, but with no luck. They have looked at their other options. The have approached the council, Threshold and Citizens Information, which do not have clarity on the measures we heard Government was proposing to introduce.

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