Eviction ban Ireland

The current ban on evictions is due to expire at the end of the month and Government will make a decision tomorrow on whether or not to extend it.

"Private landlords have been leaving the market for the last five or six years frankly at an alarming rate. "If yo look back in 2008 and 2009, at any one time there was 20 thousand something rental units available. The current ban on evictions is due to expire at the end of the month and Government will make a decision tomorrow on whether or not to extend it.

Veteran campaigner Sister Stanislaus Kennedy says the eviction ban needs to be retained until the Government stops “lurching from one short-term crisis ...

We have to raise over 40pc of our annual budget through fundraising and events such as this so we can always be there when people need us.” The 83-year-old activist said: “The Government must stop lurching from one short-term crisis response to the next. “We need decisive action to keep small-scale landlords in the market and people in their rented homes, and we also need action to ensure that families who are homeless get a fairer share of the social housing that is becoming available.”

It's understood that Cabinet will discuss the moratorium on evictions coming to an end as planned on 31 March.

“The evidence is clear. “As we move into the spring and summer, we are already dealing with less hotel rooms. We are already under pressure from people fleeing the war in Ukraine. It’s understood that Cabinet will discuss the moratorium on evictions coming to an end as planned on 31 March. “I think anyone who’s been following this debate understands that it’s not a black or white decision. O’Brien is expected to bring an update to Cabinet on plans to accelerate and increase social housing delivery this year.

The three Government leaders, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Tánaiste Micheál Martin and Greens chief, Eamon Ryan, met on Monday night to thrash out the finer detail.

He told TG4 that the Government is looking for a way to “extend the eviction ban in certain circumstances.” It has emerged that the deal set to be approved by Cabinet should see special cases allowed avail of the protections of an evictions ban for a few more months. Meanwhile, in a classic case of give and take, the landlords who may feel their rights impinged by a ban extension look set to receive significant tax breaks in return. The meeting was also attended by Housing Minister, Darragh O’Brien, who it is understood argued for a further extension of the ban. The evictions ban will end on March 31st, with a phased out deadline to the end of June. After a tense meeting of the three Government leaders last night, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Tánaiste Micheál Martin and Greens chief, Eamon Ryan, it was agreed that the protections for tenants will lapse.

Coalition party leaders are meeting, ahead of a Cabinet decision on Tuesday, on whether or not to extend the ban.

"Government is going to have to introduce an extension to what is a temporary ban on evictions". "I don't think a ban on evictions is a good idea, I don't think it's a good thing. "What I'm saying is not that there shouldn't be a continuation of the eviction ban... "In four weeks' time, the current ban on evictions ends," he said. "In fact I tabled amendments to the current ban on evictions to create separate carveouts for property owners, who themselves are at-risk of homelessness, to allow them get their properties back. "I agree with Barry on one thing: you cannot have a permanent ban on evictions, of course you can't," Deputy Ó Broin said.

Existing protections under the current ban will ensure some people cannot be evicted up until June.

"The phased basis out to June is already provided for in the legislation. "I think anyone who’s been following this debate understands that it’s not a black-and-white decision. There are pros and cons.

Following a lengthy meeting of party leaders and Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien, it was agreed that a detailed memo will be presented to Cabinet on ...

"The phased basis out to June is already provided for in the legislation. "Private landlords have been leaving the market for the last five or six years frankly at an alarming rate. "If yo look back in 2008 and 2009, at any one time there was 20 thousand something rental units available.

If all landlords avail of this proposed tax break, it would cost the taxpayer €800 million per year.

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This includes introducing a new €14,000 tax break for landlords modelled on the rent-a-room scheme which gives homeowners a tax relief on rental income for ...

In fact, they did nothing extra to deliver more social and affordable homes over the period of this ban and that is why we’re in an even worse situation than before. We are ramping up the supply of housing – supply is key here, everyone across all sectors in society acknowledges that. “30,000 people come home from abroad every year – some of them own houses and apartments and are not able to move back into them. “We all acknowledge the difficulties and constraints that are there, within the housing sector, but we are taking action. This is a completely heartless decision and I know my constituency isn’t unique, but I can't tell you the impact this is going to have in Dublin Central. But it doesn't suit the Green Party and I think we need to be clear,” she said. The eviction ban was like a sticking plaster in an emergency situation so that we could take action in the meantime and do the radical surgery, but the housing minister and the three leaders of the Coalition haven't done that surgery. “We understand a moratorium can't last forever and moratoria aren't an ideal solution in a properly functioning housing market. It was agreed that he would bring a detailed memo to Cabinet where there will be further discussions with Government colleagues.” This is about priorities and I really hope that you know everybody in that room thinks about that.” “Nobody is suggesting that this eviction ban is a permanent ban. “I can guarantee you that next month I will be sitting in constituency clinics and there will be mammies coming into me saying ‘I am being evicted through no fault of my own.

The minister said Government was concerned that an extension of the ban would damage the supply of homes in the long term if more landlords left the rental ...

"I think it's a very superficial analysis to say the numbers for the ban didn't work. "I thought all the mood music was suggesting a continuation. Please review their details and accept them to load the content. "And children and homelessness has to be a serious consideration from that point of view to be eradicated if we're going to make this the best country in Europe to live as a child." We have provided for additional emergency accommodation as well." The ban on evictions will not be extended beyond the end of this month due to concerns that an extension would damage the supply of rental properties in the long term, the Minister for Housing has said.

Hourigan sharply critical of party leader Eamon Ryan for agreeing to eviction decision.

He said he wanted to see the full Cabinet decision when it emerged, but that the ban had not had the same effect as during Covid in terms of preventing homelessness. I am not sure whether there is scope still to maximise the number of grounds where eviction can be banned, but that’ll be the case I’ll be making as we go forward”. Mr O’Brien was speaking at an event to mark the expansion of the Empowering Communities Programme to the Cherry Orchard area. He rejected Ms Hourigan’s suggestion that Green Party values were not represented when the decision on the eviction ban was made by the Coalition leaders. He argued that the Government’s room for manoeuvre on the issue had been limited by legal advice on extending the ban in its current form. But she said the Minister for Housing and the three leaders of the Coalition “haven’t done the surgery. Senator Pauline O’Reilly said she would have waited until she had all the facts, “and it was clear Neasa didn’t have all the facts”. Senator Mary Fitzpatrick, chair of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party housing policy committee, said she had requested a “detailed briefing… We need a similar ‘tenant in-situ’ measure for tenants who don’t qualify for social housing – so a form of ‘affordable tenant-in situ’ and a regulation of short-term lets in Dublin.” I know my constituency is not unique, but I can tell you the impact this is going to have. And I think let’s keep the topic on the people in my area. about the eviction ban”.