Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach has made a lot of the fact that the rate of increase is slowing. What does that say to people in reality? The Taoiseach is telling people they are still drowning, just not drowning as quickly they were, but it is going to keep getting worse. He is closing the door long after the horse has bolted and has offered nothing to deal with the crisis that is facing renters. Under his watch, not a single, affordable home has been built to rent or buy under Rebuilding Ireland. The rent pressures zones are not working. This situation is unsustainable. It is a crisis, is forcing people into penury and is locking young people out of any chance of having a permanent home. Every action the Government has taken on the housing crisis is a day late and a dollar short. As there now appears to be a consensus, this is his chance finally to get ahead of this rental crisis and to put in place the radical solution that is needed by this radical crisis, namely, a rent freeze and rent relief for all renters.

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