Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent)

I refer to promised legislation to make a clear ending to upward-only rent reviews, which would be a big help to struggling businesses that are finding it extremely difficult to keep their doors open at present. As I believe this was part of the programme for Government, what is its present status? In addition, I refer to proposed legislation on the introduction of a proper deposit protection scheme to protect deposits from being unfairly withheld from tenants by landlords who treat their tenants unfairly when their term of tenancy expires by unfairly withholding their deposits. Some protection should be put in place and some legislation should be introduced to protect such tenants and their deposits.

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