Richard Boyd Barrett tells Dáil of family being forced from home they had been renting since 1950s
Mr Boyd Barrett said he was in the District Court last Friday with a family who were being evicted despite having “done nothing wrong” and had lived in the home since the 1950s.
“Anybody whose termination date fell before the introduction of the moratorium can and is being evicted, even on no fault grounds,” Mr Boyd Barrett said. “The anger and desperation and the fear of these regular and now perfectly normal housing cases is nothing compared to the terror of those facing eviction, absolute terror.”
Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien said the Government was considering legal and policy issues around extending the eviction ban and that no decision had been made. “You do have to genuinely make sure that measures that are taken don’t lead to further flight and reduction in stock and in housing capacity in that space,” he said.
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