Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The ban was always going to be temporary and we wanted to ensure that we had further policies to bring landlords back into the market and have them stay in the market.

With due respect to Deputy McDonald, her party is seeking a three-year ban on rent increases. What will that do to the landlord market? Furthermore, her party is looking to levy €400 on a second home, so that cost will be passed back to the person who is renting. Her party’s policies are not thought through.

We have a document, Housing for All, which runs up to 2030 and deals with all areas, including social and affordable housing. There were 9,100 social homes provided in 2021 and when the figures come in for 2022 it will be the highest number of social units built in the past 50 years.

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