Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is simply not true. Have we not spent the last weeks and months, and has the Taoiseach not spent them, lamenting the fact that we are losing landlords, that we are losing capacity in the private rental sector? I ask the Taoiseach to answer this question again, and this time to try to answer it straight: where will people go? My appeal has fallen on deaf ears, it seems. We will have a vote this evening. I hope the rest of us on these benches have heard those amplified stories of hardship and fear, and we will do the right thing, even if Government will not.

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