Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The one question that Deputy Boyd-Barrett asked me to agree with related to the extra protections that were given during the Covid-19 emergency under the legislation brought in here in March that the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, prepared and brought through the Houses here on evictions, rent increases and so on. The current arrangement can end in June, the Minister will deal with it at Cabinet either this week or next. Under the legislation that was passed here in March, which I think the Deputy opposed, those protections can be extended until the end of November. That decision can be made quite soon and he is right that people want to hear what is happening. In addition to dealing with the potential backlog of arrears, research is being done on that as well and we will react to that when we can.

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