Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I dearly wish the Government would change its housing policy. I genuinely feel, given the situation we are in, that housing should form part of this. I accept what the Minister of State is saying about potentially having to screen absolutely everything, everything having to be notified and the impact that might have. Does he take my point about it being an important area? We know foreign third-party entities are - I do not know if "interfering" is the right word - distorting the housing market at the moment. That is a fact; it is happening. It is not that I am seeking to change policy on this, although I do want that anyway, but specifically here it is more that we should be using every single mechanism we possibly can to prevent these third-party actors from distorting the housing market. It was from that perspective that I proposed these amendments.