Séamus Healy (Tipperary, Workers and Unemployed Action Group) | Oireachtas source

I am sharing time with Deputy Catherine Murphy. I welcome the Bill and confirm my support for it. The measures included in it would certainly be helpful to the hundreds of thousands of people who are privately renting at the moment. The measures are reasonable, common-sense and fair. They are not groundbreaking and will not solve the housing crisis but they will certainly be helpful to families.

I also welcome the apparent conversion of the Labour Party to rent certainty, security of tenure and the building of public housing. The words "Paul" and "Saul" and the road to Damascus come to mind.

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