Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The point that we made clearly is let us not make matters worse. A lot of the talk that is going on about this is not helping the situation. The Ministers, Deputies Kelly and Noonan, are working on this assiduously to see what practical package of measures can be put together here.

There was a report by DKM, which was commissioned by the Housing Agency and the Private Residential Tenancies Board, which warned last year that introducing rent controls would make the current situation worse for tenants because rent controls would, all things being equal, reduce the supply of rental accommodation pushing market rents up higher than they would otherwise be for all tenants for a short space of time. That is the balancing line.

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