Eileen Flynn (Independent) | Oireachtas source

My mother used to say - Senator Black said it is a real Dublin thing - that self-praise is no praise. I had a question for the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, if he was here. Did he ever go into a hotel where there was a mother and five or six of her children living in one space? Did he ever go in and meet the people on the ground who are living in hotels? Why is the Government paying millions of euro to hoteliers to profit off the back of people's human rights and off inequality? Why is it investing in hotels and not in people? The eviction ban was put in place on a short-term basis, while the Government came up with solutions on supply and being able to house more people but it did not do that. I am being honest because the people I represent are members of the Traveller community, refugees and migrants. Refugees and migrants did not cause the homeless crisis in this country.