Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2025-12-18
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Rory Hearne (SD), Dublin North-West

A record 5,274 children are homeless along with their families. It is equivalent to a shocking 222 primary school classes of children. These children will spend Christmas in homelessness without a Christmas tree and without a dinner table that they can sit around with their families on Christmas Day. They will wonder if Santa will even find them. Each week we come in here, we put forward solutions and we feel the Government is ignoring them. Why will the Government not implement a temporary eviction ban to stop thousands more children and families being made homeless?
Does the Tánaiste really consider what life is like for the 5,274 children living in emergency accommodation and how damaging and traumatising it is to them? I have a piece of art for the Tánaiste today made by the artist, Asbestos, which sets out that 5,274 children are homeless.

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Sitting date: 2025-12-18