Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Landlords and developers will have their houses back in five or ten years time. The point I am making, particularly in respect of leasing and the RAS, is that the State, in the form of local government, must then find another house. One has a situation where a family is in a hotel for weeks because a landlord had to take back a house to sell it. The point is that one loses the rent, but one also loses the asset.