'Running scared' over Dail eviction ban vote

Angry scenes as Sinn Fein denied chance to push for postponement

- LOUISE BURNE and FERGHAL BLANEY

THE Government is expected to win another two votes on the evictions ban tonight.

But there were angry scenes in the Dail yesterday when the first motion on the contentious issue was debated after Sinn Fein introduced a motion calling for the ban to be extended.

The main opposition party was denied the chance of a vote on their proposal when the Government introduced a counter-move, known as a "reasoned amendment", which stops a vote on the main issue going ahead.