Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The climate Bill was approved by Cabinet yesterday and it is on the A list. The planning and development (No. 2) Bill is on the A list and will be on the way quite shortly. I do not have a date for the landlord and tenant Bill. I understand there were some references to the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, examining various features of rent and the desirability of rent certainty, which we have discussed on a number of occasions in respect of people in the private rented sector. No legislation is tabled at this time, but the Department indicated that all options were being examined. The Department has been allocated the largest budget for a very ambitious housing programme in order to open up the properties that local authorities have allowed to be closed up in recent years and to undertake a very ambitious social housing building programme, much of which will be focused in the Dublin area but which also be spread throughout the country. The Minister, Deputy Kelly, will be very capable of delivering that programme as well as delivering on many other issues.

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