Emergency accommodation eviction threshold
Deputy Gould challenged the policy of removing a pregnant woman and three children from emergency accommodation because her income was above the social-housing threshold. The Minister said emergency accommodation should be available to anyone with nowhere to go and asked for the details; the exchange ended with a procedural call to the next speaker.
I have been contacted by a lady who has three children and is five months pregnant. She is being evicted from emergency accommodation on 5 May. The Minister might ask why this is happening. It is happening because this lady is earning too much over Cork County Council's income threshold for social housing. This is unbelievable stuff. I will ask the Minister a straight question. Is it this Government's policy to remove or refuse people from emergency accommodation when they have nowhere else to go because they are earning too much money? If it is not, the Minister needs to notify every local authority of that.
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If Deputy Gould could give me the details on that I will follow up. Emergency accommodation-----
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-----is there for that particular reason. If people have nowhere to go, regardless of their income, and they require State emergency accommodation, that should be made available to them.
