Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has criticised local government TDs for their \u2018shameful\u2019 decision to end the eviction ban.
The government has decided to end the ban, which had been protecting people from \u2018no fault\u2019 evictions which could plunge them into homelessness in a matter of weeks.
Teachta Crowe said:
\u201cThe government\u2019s decision to end the eviction ban is shameful and will plunge people into homelessness across Dublin South West.
\u201cThe housing crisis is devastating lives across Dublin as people cannot afford sky high rents or find suitable accommodation because of this government\u2019s failure to get to grips with the crisis.
\u201cWe have three government TDs in Dublin South West and I would like them to come out and say why they have backed ending the eviction ban. They need to be upfront with people about this shocking decision.
\u201cFrom April, people will face the prospect of losing their home because of this disgraceful decision. This includes single people, couples, parents with children and pensioners who have been badly let down by this government and deserve better.
\u201cThe government had a choice. When the emergency ban on evictions was introduced last October, Sinn F\u00e9in urged the government that it wasn\u2019t a solution but a temporary opportunity for the breathing space in order to take emergency action needed.
\u201cWe urged them to expand the tenant in situ scheme, to extend it to affordable cost rental, to use emergency planning and procurement powers, to target vacant and derelict properties and new building technologies, to increase and accelerate the delivery of social and affordable homes.
\u201cShockingly, the government ignored these solutions and instead ended the ban without addressing these issues.
\u201cSinn F\u00e9in in government would tackle the housing crisis to make sure that action is taken to deliver the change needed. Sinn F\u00e9in has the detailed, deliverable proposals to get to grips with the housing crisis and deliver genuinely affordable homes for people in south Dublin.\u201d
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Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has criticised local government TDs for their \u2018shameful\u2019 decision to end the eviction ban. The government has decided to end the ban, which had been protecting people from \u2018no fault\u2019 evictions which could plunge them into homelessness in a matter of weeks. Teachta Crowe said: \u201cThe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5067"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5071,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067\/revisions\/5071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}