New legislation is planned to prevent landlords from evicting long-term tenants without a clear reason. Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy says it is government policy to introduce tenancies of "indefinite duration" in legislation later this year. "Currently, a landlord can evict a tenant after six years without a reason, but the Minister says that will change," said Minister Murphy writing in today's Irish Independent. Father Peter McVerry from the Peter McVerry Trust has described the housing situation as morphing from "a crisis to catastrophe". "They are tweaking the system and we need far, far more than tweaking," said Fr McVerry.

Source: Irish Examiner May 18, 2019 08:15 UTC