Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am looking for the specifics with regard to 2025 as well. I have constituents but I am not going to give the Minister too many details because it is absolutely mortifying for people to have their entire private lives traipsed across the Dáil. I know a woman who is the survivor of domestic abuse, and so is one of her daughters who she is living with. It is herself, her daughters and her grandchildren. They have now been given a notice to quit, and the advice they got from the council was that if they were receipt of a valid notice to quit to contact the homeless services. People are told that if they have a housing application with another local authority, they should direct it to the parent authority and if they do not have one, they can join the housing list. People are advised to get themselves private rented accommodation. There is no private rented accommodation in my constituency - absolutely none, zero. That advice is quite frankly insulting. Just so the Minister knows, this woman told me it is hopeless. She said she cannot sleep with the stress. She works nights, and she spends her days awake, frantic, worrying about where she, her daughters and grandchildren are going to live. If the council has that information from the Minister, that is welcome. However, what it needs is an instruction from the Minister's Department to get going on purchasing these homes. As I said, for the avoidance of any doubt, it is a homeless prevention measure for people who are not successful under this scheme or who have to leave because the scheme takes too long and who are going into emergency accommodation. There is no rental accommodation for them.

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