Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)

The Minister of State has made it clear he is not yet convinced that commercial rents are not being reduced sufficiently and he wants more information. Will he agree with my analysis on this matter that essentially, landlords today are behaving like they did during the Famine? In the Famine, landlords drove tenant farmers off their lands and now the big commercial institutional landlords are driving businesses to the wall and driving people out of their jobs?

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