Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his reply. The first need of people is housing. When will the Minister make an announcement in the House about rent certainty? When I called four years ago for rent controls that request was met with howls of protests from Fianna Fáil and, later on, from Fine Gael. The work of those two parties down through the years in relation to development and rent has been representative of landlord interests. That is the problem.

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