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

John Barry is a Limerick man in his 60s who had to retire following a heart attack and who subsequently suffered a debilitating brain injury. Mr. Barry has been given notice to quit by his landlord who had a long-term leasing arrangement with Limerick City and County Council. The landlord is evicting Mr. Barry on the grounds that he needs to move a family member into the property, while at the same time advertising another property we owns as being available to rent. This is clearly a disgraceful ruse. The landlord was in an arrangement, a contract, with Limerick City and County Council. Of course, the eviction notice came after the tenant won a case before the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, concerning the fact that the landlord was overcharging him for gas. Mr. Barry is being evicted on grounds of retaliation. The issue raised with me by people in Limerick who are helping Mr. Barry is that the landlord has managed to pull out of a contract he had with Limerick City and County Council for a long-term lease at 21 days' notice. Why is that allowed? Why is this treatment of Mr. Barry, a vulnerable, elderly man with disabilities, allowed? Why would the contract arrangements relating to the lease allow a landlord to evict someone? These contracts should be much firmer.

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