Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)

——and with respect to the Minister of State, he is either being evasive or he does not understand his brief. The point is that one system is registration and the other is licensing. When the PRTB was established, it deliberately avoided the licensing system. A licensing system manager may not be a role for the board but does the Minister of State intend to introduce such a system? If I leave a dog at boarding kennel over the weekend, it must be licensed for standards. However, it is not the same for rented accommodation. The State is ploughing millions of euro through the rental accommodation scheme and rent allowance but there is no set standard because of the absence of a licensing system.

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