142. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to detail the interventions, schemes, programmes and policies employed by his Department to avoid people being made homeless by eviction, prevent them from entering into homeless accommodation and reduce the number of people evicted into homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37934/26]

Sentiment score: -0.19

I said earlier that this Government is the cruellest since the foundation of the State. The Minister waffles on about homelessness prevention but he will not do the one thing that could actually prevent people being made homeless, which is to put in place a ban on evictions. He has become and will be known as the Minister for evictions. We have record evictions and record homelessness, and the Minister will not do the thing that he can do to prevent families and children being made homeless, which is to put in place a ban on evictions. Every month the figures come out, the Minister is in hiding and never has to answer. In here is the one time that he does have to answer, and it is a disgrace.

Sentiment score: -0.44

I absolutely stand over the comparison with the Famine. What the Minister is doing is refusing to acknowledge the trauma that is caused to every household that is evicted. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have stood over, year after year, evictions and homelessness rising. Deputy Browne is just another Minister who is standing over record homelessness and evictions. He said that I have no solutions. I set out my solution very clearly for him, namely a ban on no-fault evictions applying to existing tenants. The Minister is getting up in here and lying.

Sentiment score: -0.14

The Minister is spinning mistruths that he has put in place the biggest protections for tenants-----

Sentiment score: 0.00

-----when he has not protected existing tenants. He should correct the record.

Sentiment score: -0.17

The Minister has not give any protection to existing tenants.

Sentiment score: 0.00

They are all still as exposed to being evicted onto the streets in the same way they were before the Minister's new measures.

Sentiment score: -0.08

Yes.

Sentiment score: 0.40

I will withdraw that it was a lie; it was a mistruth.

Sentiment score: 0.00

I hope people at home can see the Minister's behaviour, which is being visited on them in the streets.

Sentiment score: 0.44

The Minister never acknowledges the human impact.

Sentiment score: 0.00