Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I give a thumbnail sketch of a deep crisis of which I am sure the Taoiseach is aware. There is also another issue the Taoiseach did not answer. At the end of my contribution I asked about the citizens who are being forced into homelessness by rising rents in the private sector, yet the Government refuses to introduce fair rent control to tackle this. Thewww.daft.iewebsite has claimed that rents in Dublin have increased by 14%, and by 9% across the State in the past year. Fair rents alone will not solve the housing crisis but it must be part of a package of initiatives to help ease the problem.

The building of social housing needs to start now. We are not looking for much and we know what is needed.

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