Housing and Residential Tenancies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2026: Second Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2026-07-09
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Alice-Mary Higgins (IND), National University of Ireland

Will we end up with a criminalised vagrancy, as we saw with the vagrancy Acts, where you basically force people to have nowhere to go and then you criminalise them for having nowhere to go? I am deeply concerned and will be opposing all these sections of the Bill.

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Sitting date: 2026-07-09