Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate the logic for it but I can also understand why a formal statement, where a person says he or she is going to sell and will have to issue an eviction notice unless he or she can get approval for this scheme or whatever, would have the same effect. It would be a formal written statement. Our guests can hear from the contributions today the amount public representatives have been involved in trying to help landlords and tenants with this and guiding them towards councils and all that, because apart from the case of Dublin City Council, this is a new scheme. The ability of tenants and landlords to navigate around this has been evolving and has not been easy. That is understandable, but it is about how we can get it onto a basis where people do not have to go to Deputies or councillors to find out who to contact in a council and where that the process is streamlined. It should be easy to navigate, easy to enter and we can take some of the stress and trauma out of it for tenants, renters and landlords. I have no doubt a good proportion of landlords who feel they have to sell want to keep the renters in place, and if they feel they can navigate this scheme without any kind of disadvantage to them, they will absolutely go down that route. It is about trying to make that easier for them so there is less disruption to people's lives.