Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I hear the points made by the Deputy. That is why the Department and Minister have initiated a review under Housing for All. It also includes the context of the wider global interventions we are making in housing from the record level of social housing construction to the affordability measures from direct purchase and shared equity and our new cost-rental model, which will be a game changer in terms of giving people secure tenure below market rental rates. All of those interventions have to be judged with this review.

We should consider the scale of Housing for All. There will be €4 billion in multi-annual funding for constructing a record level of housing. The Minister has to base that on the increase in rents which are capped by the new interventions and a number of items of legislation we introduced to protect renters throughout the Covid pandemic and ensure they would not be evicted. The review will be judged on shortly.

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