Housing

People Before Profit seeks to fast-track eviction ban Bill

Party believes eviction ban should be in place ‘as long as we continue to have a housing emergency’

Richard Boyd Barrett, People Before Profit TD: “It is very rare, let’s be honest, for a landlord to end up homeless, but of course if it is a prospect of somebody ending up homeless, regardless of who they are there should be something done about it.” Picture: Leah Farrell/© RollingNews.ie

People Before Profit (PBP) will use its private member’s time in the Dáil this week to debate a motion to accelerate the passage of the party’s eviction ban Bill.

Launching the motion at an event at Buswells Hotel in Dublin, Richard Boyd Barrett, the PBP TD, said the Bill would reinstate an eviction ban “as long as we continue in a housing emergency”.

He added: “We warned, as did many in the opposition, that when ...