Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I assure the Deputy that I am not ignoring anything. I did not get to some of the other measures we have brought in, including the tenant in situpurchase scheme, which we have rolled out and extended since January as a mitigation measure. I have set a target of a minimum of 1,500 homes. This involves converting housing assistance payment, HAP, and rental accommodation scheme, RAS, tenancies to permanent social homes. We will exceed that quite substantially this year and I want to continue it into next year. It is a really good way of securing tenancies and bringing additional homes into social housing use. I remind the Deputy that he did not just seek the extension of the moratorium, he wanted a permanent extension of it, effectively. He should be honest with people about what that would do to the private rented sector in relation to capacity and stock. Would it not see a further flight of homes being sold? It would, which the Deputy knows. These are complex issues. We need a private rental sector, whether Deputy Murphy likes it or not.

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