Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I understand what the Minister of State has said, but our experience of dealing with landlords is that these issues tend to drag on and we seem to wait indefinitely for places to be inspected and approved. We saw what happened in the inner city with regard to standards. In the surveys conducted the standards were very low. We need to be more precise about how long we should allow. From this point of view I will press the amendment.

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