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

It is true there might be issues in those areas. It would be more difficult if we said this is the national law and left it up to each authority to decide whether there was significant pressure in that area because we would get too much inconsistency. As we worked on it further with the Attorney General, we found we could not do that in any event. We had to link it to something that was already evidence of significant pressure on rents and significant demand on accommodation, which is the rent pressure zones. That is already in the law. We are changing the qualifying criteria for them and doing other things. We assume there will be more rent pressure zones so places such as Limerick, although I will not prejudge data and everything else-----