Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Apologies, Chairman. In terms of the reason it is pertinent, in the last session we put the question directly to the two Departments whether they agreed with the Residential Tenancies Board that the existing legislation applied to student tenancies. In fairness to the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, it seemed to suggest that the problem was the confusion and if the confusion was clarified, that would be great. The Department of Education and Skills still seems to suggest that it did not apply, so it is pertinent to the Bill in that sense.