Anti-evictions Bill
Mick Barry highlights notices to quit and urges fast-tracking of the Anti-Evictions Bill to stop homelessness. The Housing Minister says a rent Bill will strengthen protections and that committee and Business Committee decisions will determine the Bill's progress.
The Irish Examiner informs us this morning that one third of Threshold's clientele in Munster are currently facing notices to quit, which points towards a wave of evictions of renters in the early new year, no doubt encouraged by the Government's decision to give 100% tax breaks to landlords who renovate and who will be carrying out "renovictions" in some cases. The Roscommon eviction is the talk of the country.
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I believe that mass, peaceful, people-power protest can stop evictions in towns and cities, beginning with people taking a stand and refusing to quit.
On legislation, last Thursday, the Anti-Evictions Bill was passed by 45 votes to 39 on Second Stage in this House. Will the Taoiseach assure the House that Fine Gael will not attempt to put this Bill into cold storage on Committee Stage and will he join me in saying that Bill should be fast tracked so as to ban evictions into homelessness?