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

I thank the Deputy for relaying that message from his constituents.

I welcome his acknowledgement of the excellent work done by Clúid, as a housing body, in taking people off the local authority housing list and putting them into homes. I do not believe the Deputy recognised before that it is an important player in the provision of social housing up and down the country. As the Taoiseach has said before, we use every means at our disposal to get people into homes, be it through local authorities, housing bodies, Part V arrangements, leasing or taking homes out of vacancy. What those coming off the housing list or out of emergency accommodation want is a home and they are not going to become ideological about who is providing it, be it the local authority or housing body.

With regard to issue the Deputy raised on protecting tenants' rights, the Taoiseach alluded to our agreeing at Cabinet yesterday a significant number of new measures to protect tenants in accommodation. The document will be published with the amendments as they go before the joint Oireachtas committee before Committee Stage next week. We are taking a series of steps, not just in respect of rent pressure zones but also under section 34. I refer to the notice to quit, how it is enforced by the Residential Tenancies Board and the extended notice periods. The information will be published very shortly.

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