Housing and Residential Tenancies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2026: Committee and Remaining Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2026-07-14
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Lynn Ruane (IND), University of Dublin

The impact of night-to-night accommodation on people's health is unbelievable. We have built a structure in some of the country's most vulnerable hostels with doctors, nurses, addiction specialists and key workers on site. To have a model that is night to night or 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. completely undermines and undoes the creation of a structure for a person in their everyday life. Are we going to do night to night with a family? If a family refuses what the State deems a reasonable offer, will that family be on the street ringing whatever version of the freephone currently exists for accommodation that night? I do not understand how that adds safety or security, or how it keeps people in emergency accommodation for less time. It will actually worsen it because they will still have to come back into some sort of emergency accommodation.

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Sitting date: 2026-07-14