Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

There is a difficulty in trying to fix a certain tax for a certain cohort.

I have more questions on policy but I am conscious of time. At the critical point at which the landlord has served notice of termination and somebody is about to be become homeless, when Threshold intervenes and tries to talk the landlord back into renting out the property and keeping doing what he or she is doing, what are the main reasons landlords give for wanting to get out of renting out their properties? There are some really good landlords and some really good tenants. We know all of that. What is the main reason landlords give for wanting to leave the market? Landlords getting out is by far the biggest reason we are hitting the numbers we are now seeing. What are the main reasons landlords give Threshold for wanting out?