Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That gives a degree of stability to the rent sector. Second, even where a landlord has not increased the rent in the last 12 months, the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill currently going through the Oireachtas precludes landlords from increasing the rent beyond the market rate. Third, landlords cannot seek to set aside these measures by pricing in a rent increase to a level which is above the current market rate. If he or she does so, a tenant is quite entitled to take a case to the Private Residential Tenancies Board, PRTB. The rent will remain at the current level until the board adjudicates on the matter.

Deputy Adams has a different solution. I note that Sinn Féin, in its housing proposals, would fund social housing with money from the National Pensions Reserve Fund, NPRF. That is Deputy Adams's answer.

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