Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We seem to be going around in circles here. The Taoiseach does not dispute the facts in the report from the RTB as presented this morning. I am assuming he does not contest the fact that rents are out of control right across this State, that people are struggling to make these rents, that house prices continue to climb and climb or that homelessness is again at crisis proportions. All of these facts indicate that the policy the Government is pursuing is getting it wrong. The Government is getting it wrong.

I asked the Taoiseach about two specific measures where the Government can get it right. I asked him about a tax credit and tax rebate for the hundreds of thousands of renters caught in the grip of a cost of living crisis. Will he introduce a tax rebate that puts a month's rent back into renters' pockets? Will he finally move to instigate a rent freeze for three years? I ask him to answer these questions for me directly.

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