Election candidate takes to Twitter to find home for evicted family

A local election candidate took to Twitter to secure accommodation for a lone mother and her young son after they were evicted from their home.

Louise Bayliss, who stood as a People Before Profit candidate in west Dublin at the last local elections, said Fingal County Council and Dublin’s Central Placement Service had failed to provide the woman with emergency accommodation, despite advance notification that the family was likely to be left homeless.

The woman in the case said she had been told by the local authority that there were 10 families ahead of her on a waiting list for emergency housing.