Meeting to be held on extending eviction and rent-increase ban

Richard Boyd Barrett TD during a People Before Profit press briefing at Leinster House on Kildare Street, Dublin. Photo: Gareth Chaney/Collins.

The cabinet will hold an over-the-phone meeting later today to discuss extending emergency protections for tenants, enacted in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, amid the ongoing housing crisis.

The state-mandated freeze of rent increases and evictions is due to expire at midnight tonight, but Ministers are expected to approve an extension, while Taoiseach Micheál Martin is still in Brussels dealing with EU stimulus and budget negotiations.