Michael Noonan (Limerick East, Fine Gael)

That does not answer the issue. The officials who drafted that reply are still missing my point. There is a code of conduct for local authority tenants, but there is no such code for people in receipt of large amounts of rent allowance. A code of conduct should be attached, but the reply as drafted totally misses the point. One can get bad landlords and bad tenants, but as long as landlords keep getting the money from the HSE, they are happy and there is no intervention.

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