Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I will do that and have done so on foot of these parliamentary questions before, but I actually want the system to be fixed. The experience is poor in terms of saying to people to go to the RTB and that it might like into it. The RTB is under-resourced and is not able to deal with this. It does not have the capacity. We need the system to be fixed. Landlords are getting around the rent regulation rules by charging extra costs. Will the Minister of State bring in legislative measures to stop them doing that? Will he fix this?

A year ago, I asked the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, about tackling sex-for-rent exploitation. He gave a commitment this time last year that it would be dealt with within a few months. Nothing has been done. When will this Government act on that and on the commitments that it gave in oral parliamentary questions to the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, which have not been acted on?

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