Emergency accommodation for evicted family
Deputy Boyd Barrett said no family placements were available in Dublin and raised the case of a working couple and their children who had been evicted and had nowhere to go. The Chair managed time, and the Minister assured him emergency accommodation would be found and asked for the case details to be sent on.
Newsflash - Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council just confirmed to me in the last few minutes that there are no family placements for people who are in need of emergency accommodation anywhere in Dublin. It is the first time this has ever happened. For Niamh and Anthony, a working couple both of whom are working, and their two children who are just finishing up school this week, this is a real problem, as it is for many others. Yesterday, through no fault of their own, they were evicted by their landlord on grounds of sale. They have nowhere - and I mean nowhere - to go. What should they do? I just want to know, very simply, what the Government is going to do for them and the many others. I have 12 other cases involving people who are due to be evicted in the next few weeks, in my office alone. We need an emergency plan now to provide family accommodation for people who are homeless.
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Please do not interrupt me.
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Emergency accommodation will be found for people who are in such dire need. I ask the Deputy to please provide the details of that case and the other cases to the Minister, Deputy Darragh O’Brien, who will take up the issue with the local authority and indeed the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive. Emergency accommodation will be found.