Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Pardon me - the Irish Examiner; I am old fashioned. In a very short space of time, therefore, we see a Damascene conversion, which is welcome, but St. Paul went the whole nine yards and became a Christian. The Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney, falls well short of sainthood in these proposals in finally introducing the discussion around rent controls, but we have not seen the amendments. When will the Bills Office receive those amendments so that we can read them, and how much time will we be given to amend them and to deal with them? I remind the House that the question of the introduction of rent controls was strongly resisted by this Government for years.

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