Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I can deal with these are we go through the pillars. On the broader rental market, we have said we will have new initiatives relating to the broader rental sector before the end of the year. These will try to balance the need to continue to incentivise investment in rental property from a landlord and developer perspective and the need to deal with issues such as security of tenure, more predictability on rent, prices and so forth. We will do that and we will be back before the committee in that regard. However, we cannot do everything immediately. My job as Minister was to produce a strong foundation in terms of policy and budgets to try to make a considerable impact on a crisis situation in housing within 100 days. We did that before the summer, which was 74 days. I said at the time that we did not have enough time for the consultation required to get the balance right on the rental market and that we would take more time to do that. It was the right thing to do. Some of the issues the Deputy is raising are perfectly valid and require debate, but that does not mean we should delay on what has already been proposed and decided and can make an impact in various areas.

I am not pretending we have all of the solutions here. Incidentally, on the tenant protection issues, we are dealing with some early actions in the legislation relating to-----