Residents of apartment block facing mass eviction to hold rally outside Dail

• Author: Rayana Zapryanova
• Published date: 22 November 2022
• Publication title: DublinLive (Ireland)

Residents of Tathony House fear they could end up in emergency accommodation if the eviction plan is carried out due to the dire state of the rental market in the capital. They will be joined by tenants who are also facing mass eviction from apartments in Rathmines and St Helens in Dun Laoghaire

Cllr Madeleine Johansson is one of the people living in Tathony House, Kilmainham, who received an eviction note last month. "I spend a lot of time each day helping constituents with housing problems," the South Dublin County councillor told Dublin Live. "But now I'm facing eviction just like the worried tenants who come to me in my job."

Cllr Johansson has been living in Tathony House with her husband since 2009. They received their eviction notice on 20 October and they're due to move out on 2 June 2023. Both of these dates fall outside the timeframe for the eviction ban that was introduced by the Government a few weeks ago.

There is legislation in place that is supposed to stop these type of mass evictions, she said. However there are exemptions and their landlord is using them, saying he would be making 20 per cent less than the market price if he sold the property with the tenants in it and this...