I want to challenge the Taoiseach on a number of things he said regarding the eviction ban. First, he said earlier in response to Deputy Bacik that one thing we can all agree on is that the eviction ban will have to end sometime. No, we do not. We do not agree with that because no-fault evictions are not the norm in Europe. The Taoiseach often throws the example of Europe back at us when we try to change legislation and normal practices in this country. This is not the norm in Europe; Lorcan Sirr said so on radio this morning and we have repeatedly made that argument in this House.

People need fixity of tenure. That is an age-old demand of the Land League and we still have not achieved it after 100 years of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael ruling this State. The Government needs to look at the legislation and maintain the ban on no-fault evictions. If people wreck the gaff, do not pay their rent or cause antisocial problems, there should be evictions, but where there is no fault, evictions should not happen, end of story.

The Taoiseach argues that the Government gave people a few more months to find an alternative. They have not found an alternative, so where do they go?

We say they need to stay where they are. Rather than go on the streets, they need to stay where they are.

We are way over time.

We will give them as much backing and solidarity as we can, and we will keep arguing in this House that the law has to change to protect tenants.

I want to acknowledge that the Deputy and her party have a different view on this, but it is a different view from all the Government parties, Sinn Féin and the Labour Party, who all acknowledge that the eviction ban has to end at a certain point. I appreciate that People Before Profit-Solidarity has a different view even from the rest of the left on this.

It is true there are different laws in different European countries. There is a wide variation of different laws in different European countries but where permanent, no-fault eviction bans exist in other European countries, people would have bought a property on that basis and they would have known that. The Deputy is essentially saying that we should change our law retrospectively in Ireland so if somebody bought a property thinking they could move back into it when they came back home from Australia or Britain in a year or two, that would be taken away from them. I do not think those countries ever passed a law that retrospectively changed the rules. It would be one thing to say that if somebody was going to buy a house now, they would have to rent it out and could never regain possession of it, even if they wanted to move back in, but to change it retrospectively would almost certainly be unconstitutional-----

They can change them.

We are over time.

-----and it would be unfair, I think.

Is the Taoiseach going to change it?