Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

People Before Profit is the main cause of it. It has house owners frightened away from renting their housing. At the clinics I hold in my neck of the woods - I hold them all over the county - people tell me they have houses to rent for €600, €700 or €800 a month but they are afraid that if they let people in for the year or two in which they want to rent the property, they will not be able to get the people out again. I am asking the RTB and Threshold to adopt a different role. They should go out sourcing houses, talk to the people who own them and encourage them to rent the houses. The Government should reduce the tax on those renting out properties. If people have to pay 51% or 52% on the €600 or €700 they receive for renting out a house, they will not bother renting it out in the first place, given the cost of keeping the house going and replacing washing machines and gas cookers and all that.

I could say a lot more, but the Government is doing more harm than good.

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