'CRUEL AND CALLOUS'

Government is blasted as eviction ban ends

- FERGHAL BLANEY

THE Government was slammed as "cruel and callous" for lifting the evictions ban today as homeless figures reached 11,742.

The new total represents a tiny fall of 12 cases from February.

There are 3,373 children homeless in the total figure.

The latest figures came just hours before the ban was lifted, while calls from opposition parties and homelessness charities to row back were ignored by the Government.

Sinn Fein housing spokesman, Eoin O Broin, said: "The decision to end the evictions ban is a cruel and callous one.