He added, "We didn’t have the exact numbers, but we did know that there had been a significant increase in the notices to quit.”
"I want to make very, very clear, there will be people here who will try and create a false impression that if we had had these exact numbers, that we would have made a different decision."
Varadkar stressed that Cabinet still would have agreed to lift the ban even if they knew the exact figures.
"One of the (reasons), why we decided not to extend the eviction ban, was precisely because there was an acceleration of landlords leaving the market.
"The number of notices to quit was increasing," he stressed.
Varadkar claims if they kept the eviction ban in place for another few months then it would've caused even bigger problems.
7,000 terminations will take place in the coming months after the eviction ban was lifted.
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