Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

In terms of social landlords, I have talking to a principal from the Iveagh Trust who is very concerned about the viability of housing in that housing stock. In my area we have Respond, Cluid and Circle. Increasingly housing will be administered by social landlords. The availability of housing is really bad at the moment and if we shrink that and put that housing stock at risk, it will have the very serious knock-on effect that the State will need to pick up on the other side. This needs the most careful consideration. I reiterate the point Deputy Boyd Barrett made that it clearly demonstrates that people of no property - they have no property if they are renting houses - will be paying a property tax. It is not a property tax and should be called what it is.

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