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

In February, the Dáil passed the People Before Profit Eviction Ban Bill 2022, which would reinstate an emergency ban on no-fault evictions for the duration of the housing and homelessness emergency. Tomorrow, during our Private Members' time, we will ask that the Dáil expedite that Bill. Whatever the Taoiseach may have said back in February during the debate or since or to justify the decision to lift the ban, the situation has gotten catastrophically worse. Since then, more than 1,000 extra people have ended up in emergency accommodation, including an additional 400 children. The number of notices to quit issued in the second quarter of this year jumped by 21% compared to the previous period, up to 5,759. It is getting worse every single week.

Families, individuals and children are being driven into the trauma of homelessness. Will the Taoiseach reconsider and support our motion to expedite the reinstatement of a no-fault eviction ban as we head into the winter months?

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