Cavan-Monaghan TD Pauline Tully is calling on her Dáil colleagues to support a bill which calls on the government to "implement an immediate and temporary ban on no-fault evictions".
The bill, which is being brought by her party's spokesperson on housing, is to help "stem the tide of rising homelessness", Deputy Tully said. According to the local TD, more than 4,000 children will wake up this Christmas in temporary homelessness accommodation. She said 89 of those children are in the north east region of the country.
Deputy Tully said she does not expect the government to support the bill, which goes before TDs this evening. She told Northern Sound the detail of the bill:
"It's noting what the issues are, it's noting the concern about the rising rents and the level of homelessness, so what it's calling on the government to do is to immediately introduce an emergency three-year ban on rent increases, and that's for existing and new tenancies, and also to put a full month's rent back into every private renter's pocket and increase supply of affordable property to rent and to buy.
"We'll be discussing it this evening," Deputy Tully added, "I'm presuming the Government won't support it, so it will go to a vote tomorrow evening."
