Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The committee would be interested to get feedback on this to see what we can do to this improve or streamline the process. Senators Cummins and Fitzpatrick and I visited an LDA site in Shanganagh today. A large amount of cost rental housing is coming along there. The concept of cost rental has been slow because it is a new concept. We only legislated for it in the Affordable Housing Act which I believe was in July 2021. I appreciate that it will be slow. It is possibly legislation on which we will look back in a decade and say it was a turning point on secure long-term tenancies. These are the comments I wanted to make and we will be interested to hear the feedback from Mr. Murtagh.