Sinn Féin TD for Dublin South West Seán Crowe has said that the staggering rise in the number of evictions in the first three months of the year is a devastating indictment of the government’s housing policy.

Evictions in the first three months of the year have skyrocketed to 7,062, compared to 4,693 in the same period last year.

Teachta Crowe said:

“There has been an increase of over 2,000 evictions recorded in the first three months of this year than in the same period last year.

“Evictions in the first three months of the year numbered 7,062, compared to 4,693 in the same period in 2025.

“A whopping 50% increase in the number of evictions and it is all down to this government’s fatally flawed rental housing policies. They had been warned that landlords would use these changes to kick tenants out, but they said they knew best and now thousands of men, women and children have been forced out of their homes.

“At the very height of a housing emergency, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael decided to let landlords in new tenancies charge full market rents and this is a direct result. This was a deliberate political choice to support landlords and big investment firms and is nothing short of a betrayal of ordinary workers and their families.”