Protections against eviction for renters to be extended

Protections against evictions for renters, who've been financially hit by Covid-19 and are in arrears, are due to be extended under plans to be brought to Cabinet next week by Minister for Housing Darragh O'Brien.

The Department of Housing said that rental pressure zones are due to expire at the end of this year and Minister O'Brien will be introducing a range of rent reforms which will be introduced into the Oireachtas in the Autumn. Taoiseach Micheál Martin says Sinn Féin lacks honesty on the housing issue. He accuses the party of opposing housing projects that could have led to affordable prices for renters. | Read more #politics: https://t.co/i7QdFQIed7 pic.twitter.com/SMBhkiJwJP

Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald says people don’t stand a chance in saving for a mortgage deposit when paying such high rents. She says the Covid-19 pandemic has hit 'generation rent’ very hard. | Read more #politics: https://t.co/i7QdFQIed7 pic.twitter.com/utU5WINL4I Paul Murphy TD says the cost of renting has more than doubled in the last decade, and Dublin rents are the fifth highest in all of Europe. Irish renters pay an average of 40% of their income on rent - the highest in the world, he says. | Read more: https://t.co/i7QdFQIed7 pic.twitter.com/U1e2lIIWuL

During the Spanish flu, hardly anyone knows, but masks were worn on the streets, and vaccinated, only to introduce passports and control borders, history likes to repeat itself, it is only about controlling us under the guise of a big disease.

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