Rory Hearne

Overall sentiment: -0.24
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Last Friday, figures showed that we have reached the highest level of homelessness in this State's history. We also have the highest number of evictions in this country since the Famine. There are 2,500 children who have been in emergency accommodation for longer than one year. The Taoiseach knows that has a devastating impact on children. Many are in my constituency, Dublin North-West. One mother, Shauna, has been in touch with me. She has four children aged 13, seven, three and one. She is an emergency accommodation and is absolutely desperate. The Taoiseach's new rental measures do not protect existing renters from evictions. Will he put in place an emergency ban on no-fault evictions into homelessness? Will he increase the funding to the tenant in situ scheme to include funding for refurbishment so that councils can actually implement the tenant in situ scheme and prevent homelessness?

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Why punish the-----

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