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

As we catch up in building more homes - we are doing so - we have to protect people who may not have a home or who are at risk of losing it because they cannot afford the rent. However, freezing rent increases will not help to build new apartments and we need thousands of new apartments. Linking rent increases with inflation is fine when it is low, but what happens if inflation goes up dramatically? What then for the people concerned? As they would not be protected in that instance, we need to be careful. We have rent caps which were agreed to by the House-----

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