Figures released yesterday show that homelessness has hit a record high for the seventh month in a row, despite the eviction ban being in place since November.
MINISTER OF STATE Jack Chambers has said that the government is still considering whether or not to extend the eviction ban beyond April, but a decision must be balanced in order to prevent landlords leaving the market.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Saturday with Colm Ó Mongain, Chambers said that the government is weighing options carefully in order to “get the balance right.”“And certainly I think the the underlying homelessness figures would have been worse if it wasn’t for that government decision that was taken,” the Fianna Fáil TD said.
“There won’t be a cliff edge on the first of April, as people will be aware that that legislation extends notices to quit depending on the length of tenure in that particular property out to the summer in some cases,” Chambers explained. “The eviction ban and the need for an eviction ban is a symptom of a housing disaster that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have presided over. We know that landlords had been leaving the market since 2017, long before an eviction ban came into place,” she said.Chambers argued that Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien had already told local authorities to do this, with Boylan replying:
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