TD fights back tears during scathing attack on Government over eviction ban

Independent TD Verona Murphy said: “If I have one child in Wexford that isn’t accommodated, I’ll be bringing it here, and it’ll be sitting in the Ceann Comhairle’s lap."
TD fights back tears during scathing attack on Government over eviction ban

Verona Murphy told the Dáil that “nobody has won anything" in the lifting of the eviction ban. 

A TD fought back tears in the Dáil during a scathing attack on the Government over the eviction ban.

Independent TD Verona Murphy came to verbal blows with Tánaiste Micheál Martin as she criticised the Government on planning. She said she wanted to voice her displeasure at having to “sit through a mockery of what has happened".

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