Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach says this has been a difficult situation for the Minister; God help him facing this situation. We have heard it all before - Enda-speak, platitudes and plamás. The Taoiseach says it is quite complex. The bottom line is the Government has refused to act on rent certainty once again. The Government and the other team across the floor have created the biggest housing emergency in the history of the State. Under the Taoiseach’s Governments, there has been one certainty where wealth has been transferred from the poorest to the better off and social mobility has been reversed. Poverty and inequality have increased.

Today, the Government and Fianna Fáil, if it supports the Government with its confidence and supply agreement, have guaranteed that citizens renting in Dublin will pay €2,300 more for exactly the same property in three years' time. They have ensured that inflation and the cost of living are going to increase savagely. They have guaranteed knock-on pay demands in the private and public sector and ensured that people are going to be priced out of their homes. I will ask the Taoiseach again. Why does the Government not bring certainty to these tenants?

See this speech in context