Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

People who were in receipt of rental supplement will now be in receipt of a housing assistance payment. No new people will be in receipt of such a payment and that is another problem. The introduction of the HAP initiative was part of the Government's policy to improve the position, but that has not happened and we are barely holding on to what we have in place. Moving on to my questions for the witnesses, do they all agree that we need rent controls in place, whether they be tied to the consumer price index, inflation or some such mechanism that is used in other European countries? Under the HAP initiative, there is no system of deposits in place