Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

As the Minister will be aware, during the past two years we have lost approximately 12,000 rental properties according to the Residential Tenancies Board as a result of accidental buy-to-let landlords exiting the market. We have also seen a significant increase in the level of institutional investment in recent years, both with respect to building and the buying up of blocks of apartments. Is the Department undertaking an analysis of the these two trends within the private rental sector and, in particular, their impact both on price in terms of affordability for new entrants and on security of tenure?

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