Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

First, I wish to comment on the lack of input from the big parties in the Dáil, with big numbers of staff and researchers who have made no input whatsoever into the Bill. The private rented sector has grown massively under the Government's watch, mainly because people cannot get mortgages and have been forced more and more into the private rented sector. It is time something was done for them. In his response the Minister of State mentioned the markets and investors, but I did not hear him once mention tenants.

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