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

-----and that will be evident over the next few months.

In opposing the Sinn Féin Bill, we are putting down a reasoned amendment setting our plan, what we have done already in the past six months and what we will do in the months ahead. It is the same wording as the motion that the Dáil voted on last week and that is the reasoned amendment we are putting down to refuse a Second Reading for the Bill.

I have read Deputy Ó Broin's Bill. I have it here. I have read it, from cover to cover. It is a short Bill. We are opposing it for the following three reasons: it will make it illegal for people to move back into their own house or apartment unless they themselves are at risk of homelessness; it will make it illegal for somebody to move his or her son or daughter into an apartment when he or she goes to college in September-October even if he or she bought the apartment or house for that purpose; and it will also make it illegal for someone to sell a house that he or she owns even if he or she is in financial distress and has to do so for his or her own particular reasons.

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