Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Duffy mentioned the meeting with the Austrian Green Party to look at the Vienna model. Cost rental is a model the Green Party has promoted for a long time, so I am delighted to see it placed on a statutory basis now. The Vienna model has been in place for generations, and that is why it is so successful. It is because it has proven track record. Do we have a bit of work to do in this country to explain or promote cost rental as a long-term affordable solution, that tenancies are secure? We have a history in Ireland of security of tenure not being good and tenants always being fearful of a landlord's knock on the door. Have we a bit of work to do to show that this is a long-term, affordable solution for housing needs that will be safe and secure, that rents will be at an affordable rate based on incomes, that tenants will be secure there and will not always be desiring to attain home ownership? Would the Housing Alliance have a view on that?