Over 200 tenants are facing eviction in Tyrrelsown in Fingal.

Dublin West Sinn Féin representative Cllr Paul Donnelly will present an emergency motion at Fingal County Council to highlight the issue for 208 families in Tyrrelstown.

He said: "They are shocked that their homes were bought by venture capital group Goldman Sachs who, along with Davey Stockbrokers controlled group, European Investment Group and Twinlite Developers, are moving very quickly to evict them.

"I have spoken to residents many of whom have been in their current accommodation for over 10 years and who are terrified as to what the future holds for them.

"I am calling on Twinlite to assure their tenants that they will not move to evict anyone who cannot find alternative accommodation and secondly for Fingal County Council and the Department of Social Protection to immediately set up a working group to identify all tenants of Twinlite who are at risk of homelessness and to start working with them immediately to help them."

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Threshold, the national housing charity, has called on the Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan TD, and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Alan Kelly TD, to meet with the property company Twinlite.

Chairperson of Threshold, Senator Aideen Hayden, said: "Given the scale of the current homelessness crisis, the recklessness of ending large numbers of tenancies in this way cannot be overstated.

"The law that governs the private rented sector, the Residential Tenancies Act, is completely inadequate to protect tenants in a situation where tenants are evicted en masse from a development. There is little protection for tenants in this situation.

"Threshold is aware that a number of developers put their properties into the rented sector when they could not be sold and that this situation we’re now seeing in Tyrrelstown is likely to be repeated if immediate action is not taken."

(CD/MH)