Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Yes. I wish to raise with the Tánaiste the issue of rent certainty. The housing action plan commits to the introduction of legislation on tenancy arrangements in the private rental sector and to a strategy for the private rental sector. The plan is high on promises but low on delivery, particularly on the issue of rent certainty. The Tánaiste will recall that Sinn Féin brought an initiative to the Dáil to deliver rent certainty by linking rent inflation to the Consumer Price Index and to give people some comfort - people who, as we all know, are being fleeced with average rents of €1,500 per month in Dublin, for example. When does the Government propose to legislate for rent certainty? I remind our colleagues in Fianna Fáil that the Fianna Fáil Party knocked back a proposal that would have given people rent certainty on a promise of something that has not materialised and that is not missed by people who are under pressure.

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