Five-year-old girl and mother to be evicted on New Year’s Day, Taoiseach told

There have been protests in Dublin about the problem of no-fault evictions (PA)

A five-year-old girl and her mother are among the people to be evicted over the Christmas period the Taoiseach has been told, as he was urged to help those in insecure housing.

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald raised the cases of people who are living “from pay cheque to pay cheque”, and who face eviction over the Christmas period.