'Next redress scheme will be for homeless children'

Shauna Heneghan from Dublin with her three children who are aged 5, 16 months, and just eight weeks, and are in emergency accomodation in Co Kildare. Picture: Moya Nolan

Eight weeks ago, Shauna Heneghan gave birth to her third child, a baby girl. Two weeks ago, she was left homeless.

In a story that will be all too familiar to so many renters in Ireland at present, the couple who owned her flat in Kilmainham, south Dublin, were selling up.