Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

With regard to the promised legislation on upward-only rent reviews, which the Minister for Justice and Equality is working on, the Taoiseach suggested at the commencement of his term in office that a facility would be afforded to the Opposition to tease out the principles of Bills in Dáil committees. It appears there have been some constitutional difficulties with this Bill. I invite the Taoiseach to use the Bill as a template for the kind of reform he articulated at the commencement of the Government, which has not yet happened; that is, that he facilitate Members of the House in considering the principles of the Bill that the Government is preparing.

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