Category: Press

Thousands call for return of Edmund Honohan to debt cases

Above is today’s Irish Times headline which references a gathering of self-proclaimed actionists from the four corners of Ireland. Filmed outside the High Court on February 4th 2019 when a letter was delivered to the Irish High Courts seeking the reversal of the obscene decision to remove debt-related cases from the Master of the High Court, […]

Sunday Business Post

Right2Homes is pleased to present the articles which appeared in The Sunday Business Post on November 25, 2018. The authors, recognised social, legal, political, academic and sector authorities have expertise in every aspect of the #Housing and #Homeless crises both here in Ireland and abroad. All have generously contributed articles at our request. Constraints of […]

Using the law to help keep people in their homes – Edmund Honohan

Using the law to help keep people in their homes… The Affordable Housing and Fair Mortgage Bill 2018 has been written by Master of the High Court, Edmund Honohan, with the aim of enacting government policy in such a way as to keep people in their homes. Introduced in the Dáil last July, the bill highlights […]

Eviction is still a dirty word in Ireland – Senator David Norris

Eviction is still a dirty word in Ireland… “In June 2018 I proposed a bill in the Senate ‘The National Housing Agency Bill’, prepared in large part by Ed Honohan, Master of the High Court, at the behest of a group of people concerned about the fate of those citizens with distressed mortgages. An updated […]

Protecting families from predatory vulture funds – John McGuinness, TD

Protecting families from predatory vulture funds… When then Taoiseach Enda Kenny confirmed that it was the government’s policy to ensure that repossession of family homes should only be a last resort, I accepted his bona fides. With the present government, I have my doubts. Back then, the policy was that banks should deal with distressed borrowers through […]