Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has denied that he overruled Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien’s wish to extend the eviction moratorium.
The claim was made by homeless advocate Fr Peter McVerry in a radio interview on Monday morning. The eviction ban came to an end on March 31 following a Cabinet decision taken in early March.
While there had been some early indications that the ban could be kept in place in some instances, it was fully lifted and a number of measures were announced by the Government to replace it. Speaking to South East Radio’s The Morning Mix Show, Fr McVerry suggested that Minister O’Brien wanted to keep the ban in place but he was "overridden" by the Taoiseach.
