Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy is right. To go back to the just transition we were talking about earlier, no sector should be left behind. That is why there is a commitment in the Housing for All strategy, published two weeks ago, that we would put in place conditions, over a suitable time period to give landlords advance notice such that those rental properties would have to meet a rising BER standard so that the renter would not be disadvantaged and left paying very high energy bills and having an unhealthy apartment. That has to be done carefully over time so that landlords are not forced out of a market that is already short of supply, but it was absolutely appropriate for the Housing for All strategy to use that measure to protect renters and make sure they have an energy-efficient place to live, just like everyone else.

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