Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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I spoke to her last week about this. What I am concerned about is that 11% of AHBs have not come back yet. The percentage of properties is another day's work. What we are all watching, and I hope the Department is watching, is what happens to those houses when they are unencumbered from a financial point of view. Are AHBs going to be in a situation where they become private landlords? I have given Mr. Doyle one concrete example. As Secretary General, I appeal to Mr. Doyle to do this. A lot of the tenants of that little scheme I am talking about in County Laois are vulnerable people. There are people with serious health issues, some have mental health issues, they are all very elderly, some are very frail and some are actually bedridden. It is a very important point that somebody from a private company can show up at their door in the past year and tell them their rent is going up 60%.