Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Surely rents in the years leading up to 2007 were based on a property bubble in which property prices were vastly inflated and incomes had to follow to keep pace with the property market. How does Mr. O'Brien respond to that point? If we are harking back to the peak of the boom and hoping to achieve boom time rents, we will go down the same road we went down the first time around.

On the rate of rent increases, do members of the Irish Property Owners Association discriminate between social welfare supported tenants and other tenants? Questions were also asked on refunding deposits.