Luke Flanagan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Walsh for explaining what she plans to do. The most important thing she has to deal with is deposit retention. The sooner the PRTB can set up a scheme to deal with that independently the better because, as Deputy Stanley said, if a person moves out of a place and does not get his or her deposit that prevents him or her from moving to another place. That causes serious problems in people's lives.

Where I come from I do not hear many complaints about private landlords. One reason for that is the availability of so much private rental property. If a landlord does not treat tenants properly they move out fairly rapidly. In my experience they tend to get on all right with the private landlords. The problems I see in my office are brought by county council tenants. Does Deputy Humphreys know whether it is proposed that the county councils will be brought under the remit of the PRTB at some stage?