Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Last week, the eyes of the world were on Ballina in County Mayo when Joe Biden came to visit us. This week, a report in the Mayo Newsstates a Ballina mother is begging for help as the prospect of having nowhere to live becomes more and more real with every passing day, as she talks about the lifting of the eviction ban. She said she has never begged for anything in her life but she is begging now and pleading for help and for something to stop her and her children having to live on the street. Speaking of her children, she said she tells them everything will be okay. When they are not there, she locks herself in the dark and just cries. She tries to keep the good side out all the time but the days tick by and she is becoming more desperate. Will the Government reinstate the eviction ban until such time as this mother and family and all of the mothers and families I am dealing with have somewhere to go? They have gone to the council. She told me she looks on the website every hour. There is nowhere for these people to go.

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