Tom Clonan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

If we have a senior person who talks about an eviction ban as kicking the can down the road, where does he think those people are going to go? There is nowhere for them to go. What is he trying to do? Create the set of "A Christmas Carol"? Christmas is nine weeks away. There is nowhere for people to go. We have reached an absolute crisis point and we absolutely have to do something about it. The situation in which people like my son, people with disabilities, find themselves in this country is a microcosm of an ideology that has brought us to this place. It is an ideology that runs contrary to the ideology that brought this House into being 100 years ago. I ask all my fellow Senators and all Deputies to go to their parliamentary party meetings and say, "Let us value people, let us invest in people and let us get rid of this neoliberal poverty of spirit that reifies capital to the extent that we find ourselves in this crisis."