The bill means that people can no longer be evicted into homelessness.
The Government has lost a Dáil vote on an anti-eviction bill. There was 46 votes for yes, and 39 for no.
People Before Profit took to Twitter to celebrate the fact that the bill had been passed.
https://twitter.com/pb4p/status/1073219028641026048
The Solidarity-People Before Profit bill includes a ban on renovating a property as grounds for ending a lease.
The bill has now been passed by 46 votes to 39, with Fianna Fáíl abstaining.
The proposed legislation now goes to committee stage.
Before the vote took place, there was a call for TDs who were also landlords to abstain from the vote.
TD Paul Murphy claimed that one in four TDs in the Dáil also act as landlords.
Mick Barry, Solidarity and Socialist Party TD for Cork North-Central took to Twitter following the vote:
https://twitter.com/MickBarryTD/status/1073237882641543169
