Oireachtas committees say emergency legislation needed to tackle homelessness

O’Brien said Ireland was “not treading water” on the crisis. “We are drowning. When there is a crisis like this it does require crisis and emergency measures – things like restricting sale [of rented homes], the possibility of temporary rent freezes.”

Sinn Féin TD Eoin Ó Broin said many of the reports’ recommendations – including an end to the use of one-night-only accommodation for families and the practice of “self-accommodation” where families must source their own emergency accommodation – could be implemented overnight if Minister for HousingThe reports, from the committee on housing and the committee on children, contain 14 and 20 recommendation respectively.

Among these are that the 1998 Housing Act be amended to limit how long families spend in emergency accommodation, and to oblige local authorities to make the “best interests of the child as paramount” when placing families in emergency accommodation. Restrictions on the right of landlords to issue vacant possession notices to quit when selling their property should be “actively considered” to reduce the flow of families into homelessness, they say.

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