Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

With the UK stepping out of the EU, are we not very much an EU outlier?

I wish to ask Dr. Ryan about the cost rental model he suggested. For a long time, cost rental has been a core Green Party housing policy. I was a member of the policy group that wrote it in for the first time, possibly going back to 2016. It strikes me now as that type of a jumper that is being worn by many people. I am not sure I recognise what cost rental now means when people refer to it. I would have factored in things like security of tenure and long-term tenure. That clearly does not apply in a third level context. Presumably these would be nine- to ten-month lets with a short-term letting element within that for a summertime letting. When Dr. Ryan says cost rental, what does he mean?

By the way, I very much welcome the fact that technological universities can borrow for student accommodation within Housing for All. That is pivotal in the case of Waterford, for example. It is very much required to provide income on campus for the new South East Technological university, SETU, and in terms of alleviating the pressure on the rest of the housing market. I would like to hear the nuts and bolts of how our guests envision a cost-rental model applying to this particular type of accommodation.