Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

We do not need a private rental sector. It is not true. We need homes for people to live in and affordable rents for them. The landlords the Minister spoke about exiting the market cannot bring the homes with them. They do not strap the apartments to their backs, get on a boat and leave; the properties remain here. They cannot remove them. We simply need the State to step in, in every circumstance in what that happens, buy it, convert people into tenants of the State and give them security of tenure and so on. It would be a much better solution for people, as opposed to-----

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