People in my constituency are receiving eviction notices at a rate beyond anything that I have ever seen before. My office has been receiving calls from people in private rental accommodation, who have been told that their landlords are selling the property and are being given notice to quit. Some of these are people with families, with children in both primary and secondary school. Some are young couples with a baby on the way. Some have an illness or disability or they are carers or lone parents. What they all have in common is there is absolutely nowhere for them to go. Cavan County Council does not have the housing stock or budget to bring the vacant properties up to standard and even if it had, it lacks the builders or tradesmen required to carry out the work to meet this crisis head-on. It cannot keep up with the volume of desperate calls seeking help that it is getting. On daft.ie, there are only ten properties for rent in Cavan. At any given time over the past year, there have been between six and 12. People are competing for these properties. They cannot rent properties.

I thank the Deputy.

They are restricted to staying in the area where their children go to school. How can this be dealt with? It is a crisis.

How many evictions have there been?

Multiple. I spoke to the housing officer yesterday and she said she is dealing with those for November and December. She cannot even think about those for the new year.

If we could get an indication of the number of evictions, that would help us to work on the issue. There should be no excuse for not bringing vacant houses back into use because unprecedented funding has been allocated to local authorities to bring the voids back into use quickly. The Residential Tenancies Board should be used by those who are being threatened with eviction to make sure that all their rights and entitlements are adhered to. If the Deputy can send the details, we will follow up on that.