Not ending eviction ban 'would have further affected rental supply', Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien has said.
"That allows people that time to source accomodation and look at their options"."We delivered about 6,000 new social homes," he said.
"We brought back over 1,500 void social homes, and actually used that period of time to exit more families - and indeed individuals - from homelessness"."It is a very complex issue, it's not just people coming from the private rental sector," he said. "It is relationship breakdown, it can be new arrivals - and we have a lot of new arrivals coming in too - and we need to look after everyone.
"We've increased the emergency bed capacity over that period; we added an additional 500 homeless emergency beds.Minister O'Brien also said they are ramping up purchases of tenants in-situ. "The sale with tenant in-situ means it reduces the costs for the property owner sunstancially," he said.'This is a horror movie'"I think this is a horror movie for all those tenants who have received notice to quit,"
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