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Deputy Pa Daly.
SINN Féin TD for Kerry, Pa Daly, has said that data released on the number of eviction notices served from July to September 2022 underlines the need for the government to reverse its decision to end the eviction ban.
Deputy Daly was speaking after data released by the Residential Tenancies Board showed that 120 eviction notices were served in Kerry in Q3 2022.
“The figures released by the Residential Tenancies Board today are truly shocking and seriously worrying,” said Deputy Daly. “We have had dozens of constituents contacting us, anxious for themselves and their families.”
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“The latest RTB figures show that the sale of homeless risk from April 1st, when the government’s ban on evictions ends, is much worse than expected. Notices issued from July to September would have, in many cases, fallen due from February during the ban period. A huge number of these notices will now fall due in April.”
“This will mean more people than ever before will have to leave their homes. Homeless services will not be able to cope. The consequence will be thousands of people forced to stay with family and friends, a rise in rough sleeping, and the prospect of families with children being referred to Garda stations for a safe place to sleep,” he said.
“Government must immediately reverse the decision to end the ban on evictions. Emergency legislation must be brought before the Dáil before the ban ends on March 31st and all renters must be given the protection they deserve.
“The government must accompany an extension of the ban on evictions with emergency measures to extend and expand the tenant-in-situ scheme for social and affordable rental and using emergency planning and procurement powers to target vacant and derelict homes and new building technologies to ramp up the delivery of public housing,” said Deputy Daly.
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