Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has contended that the eviction moratorium was creating a “new form of homelessness” as the opposition criticised the Government’s decision to end the ban.
Cabinet ministers agreed on Tuesday morning that the ban would come to an end on March 31 as expected. The meeting ran over by an hour, with Education Minister Norma Foley describing the discussion on the ban as “full and frank”.
At Leaders’ Questions, Sinn Féin’s housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin, Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns and Independent TD Thomas Pringle all condemned the decision to end the ban, arguing that it would increase homelessness numbers in the coming months.
