Lord Mayor Meets With Housing Bosses Over Hotel Closure
Dublin’s Lord Mayor is meeting with housing bosses this evening to discuss the plight of a group of homeless families about to be evicted from their emergency accommodation.
It’s following a vigil outside Lynam’s Hotel on O’Connell Street which has been taken over by NAMA.
Annette Courtney has been living there with her daughter for the last month.
They’ve been given an extra week at the O’Connell Street site but she says they're still in the dark "haven't heard nothing back from nobody. We're here for another week so when it comes to the first of August, we don't know where to go".
"Please just let us know what's happening because we're really frustrated and we don't know whether we're going to be on the streets from the first of August we really don't".
Annette’s comments come following a cross party vigil outside the hotel, calling on NAMA to keep it open and for Dublin City Council to arrange for somewhere suitable for them to move to.
Lord Mayor Brendan Carr was there, he’s meeting housing bosses to find out what has been offered to the families.
"If some of the accommodation hasn't been suitable, to find out where we can put these families. We are asking NAMA, we're asking the receiver at this stage to hold off everything until these families have been found accommodation which they themselves believe is going to be suitable".
The families are holding a protest outside NAMA headquarters in the morning.
The agency and the receiver for the hotel are also due back at the High Court tomorrow.