Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I answered this question last week for the Deputy's colleague, Deputy Howlin. We are working on the establishment of the scheme in conjunction with the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, as part of the new change management programme. The legislation in place may not be sufficient to do what we want to do with the RTB. We may need to bring in new legislation to supplement the primary legislation. We are moving to do what the Deputy suggests but doing so is not as simple as we thought it would be in terms of the existing legislation.

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