asked the Minister for Local Government whether the manager of a local authority is in any way obliged to evict a tenant of an unfit dwelling before he has alternative accommodation to offer such a tenant; and, when such an eviction takes place, what is the minimum provision which his Department must make for a tenant and the members of his family so evicted.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Provision for Evicted Tenants.
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Persons displaced by a statutory operation of a housing authority are normally rehoused on displacement.
Where a statutory notice is served by a housing authority on a person having control of an unfit house, requiring such person to repair, close or demolish it, as the case may be, the housing authority is obliged to ensure that the terms of the notice are complied with in due course in accordance with the provisions of the Housing Acts. If, as a result of the service of a notice, a tenant is displaced from an unfit house, subsidy is available from my Department towards the cost of his rehousing. A person who knowing that a Demolition Order has come into operation in respect of a house, enters into occupation of that house, commits an offence and is liable to prosecution in addition to being required to vacate.