Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

There should also be consultation with public representatives on local authorities, as well as managers. I will press the amendment on the grounds that the Minister of State is not limiting the discretion of local authorities to increase rents upwards significantly from the model rent she suggests. We need harmonisation. It has to be fair, but the Minister of State's provision leaves too much flexibility for injustice and to increase rents.

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