31-year-old Eoin McGovern lives with his partner Maria and their 20-month-old baby boy and nine-month-old baby girl in a mobile home in Ballyhaise in Cavan
A Cavan man who says he is being blocked at every turn as he tries to provide a home for his young family has said he is terrified of being “put out” of the mobile home he bought to try and get around the housing crisis.
READ MORE: €1m drugs case against glam CAB couple dropped because others had access to garage where it was stored “We were shocked and distraught as we didn't know we needed planning permission as it's on wheels it is not a permanent structure. “She and my partner moved in with my mother for the winter as it would have been dangerous for the baby to have stayed in the mobile home given it was absolutely freezing.
“Maria is incredibly stressed. I was advised to apply for FIS, Family Income Supplement. I applied for that, that's €100 a week, but that actually put me over the threshold for a council house. “This situation has taken a huge toll on all of us. My mother is absolutely devastated about this, we are quiet people, we pay our way, we’ve never harmed anybody in our lives, we just want to be independent, we're not dragging out of the state, yet it doesn’t seem to matter.
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