Sitting Clare TD Violet-Anne Wynne claims she is homeless
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Former Sinn Féin TD for Clare Violet-Anne Wynne has said she and her six children are currently homeless.
Speaking in a video posted both on her Facebook page and on Twitter, she said she is currently staying in a holiday home.
Ms Wynne said she had been given a notice to quit and had struggled to find new accommodation for her young family.
Posted with the message: “Ireland 2022, when a TD can end up homeless”, Ms Wynne sets out the difficulty she and her family have encountered in finding accommodation in Clare.
Ms Wynne, who left Sinn Féin earlier this year, said she and her family need a four-bedroom house, but the options available are minimal.
Ms Wynne as a TD is paid €101,193 and as a Clare-based representative, she is entitled to €31,365 a year in travel and accommodation allowances.
“I know at the time of the notice to quit, even finding hotel space was extremely difficult and the holiday home was the only answer for our family but it is not a sustainable solution for our family. So we remain hopeful and hopefully we do get good news.”
Ms Wynne said she and her family were privately renting property in Kilrush for the last number of years “But it was only supposed to be a short term solution to our housing needs as it was far too small for our family size,” she said.
Ms Wynne says here former landlord gave her notice to quit when they found out she was pregnant with her sixth child as the house was unsuitable.
“Once hearing that I was pregnant on our sixth child, the landlord did issue us with a notice to quit for that very reason. And you know, the property was far too small and obviously, an additional child was going to make space even more difficult for everyone,” she said.
She said that prior to the 2020 general election but specifically since the election, she and her family have been seeking alternative accommodation and to no avail.
Ms Wynne resigned from Sinn Féin in February claiming she had been “isolated” and subjected to “psychological warfare”.
She claimed some in the party used her pregnancy as a “stick to beat her with”.
Ms Wynne said she was disappointed that Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald had not contacted her to congratulate her on the birth of her most recent child.
In 2020, Violet-Anne Wynne claimed the release of details about her eviction from social housing due to estimated rent arrears of over €12,000 was “politically motivated”.
She claimed a leak about her court case with Rural Resettlement Ireland (RRI) on the eve of the general election was done to negatively impact on her campaign.
Ms Wynne and her partner, John Montaine, were asked to respond to a claim notice issued by RRI for the sum of €12,126 being the amount of four years’ rent arrears of rent up to June 3, 2016, according to court documents.
Soon after her election to the Dáil in 2020, it was reported that Ms Wynne and her partner were in rent arrears on their property.
She had approached a solicitor and expected the matter to be dealt with in a period of a few weeks expressing her desire that the controversy would not “drag on” for two to three years.
“I had a chance to pay it back as I always wanted it paid,” she said.
According to court documents, Ms Wynne and her partner had rent arrears of €12,126 over a four-year period dating to June 3, 2016. Under the letting agreement dated December 1, 2011, a weekly rent of €63.64 was set.
The family remained in the Tullycrine house for six years. The Offaly native insisted that the couple paid 12 months' rent and a deposit until they began to experience financial difficulties.