Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have the rent pressure zones. Because of these, according to daft.ie, the vast majority of people who are renting, those who are established sitting renters and existing tenants, saw rents increase by about 3.5% last year. The huge problem we have is with very high rents on properties that are new to the market. The only thing we can do about that is increase supply. Deputy McDonald objects to increased supply-----

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