Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yes. That is separate from what we were just discussing, which is the regulations the committee already has and which will be discussed next week. Then it is my intention to formally lay them before the Houses in the first week of May after the Easter break. That is where the meat of this is. There is a wait of 21 days before they become law. As a result of the delay, and I indicated this earlier, we are now looking at 1 July next for these becoming law. It was previously indicated in October that it would be 1 June but to be fair to everyone there must be a period, once the law is passed, in which we can tell everyone in rent pressure zones that this change is coming. Anybody who is in this sector knows this is happening. I doubt that anybody can claim not to know, but to be fair I have pushed the date back by a month.