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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, April 08, 2019

QUESTION NO. 4

QUESTION: Councillor S. Holland

To ask the Chief Executive whether a barring or safety order against the perpetrator of domestic violence necessarily follows with a removal from the tenancy of a council property shared with their victim? 

REPLY:

The Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 does not provide for the Council to make an application for a Possession Order in respect of domestic violence.

Tenants who are victims of domestic violence should in the first instance report the matter to the Gardai who will advise them of their legal  rights.   

Where the perpetrator is an occupier/non tenant, the tenant should be advised to apply to the Courts for an Exclusion Order.