Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

No, in terms of the rental market. I am not sure that what it recommends would fit with the policy platform of the Deputy's party in terms of the rental market. We need to examine it and the Department is examining it. It is a substantial and comprehensive document which merits detailed examination. Some issues are being progressed but it merits detailed examination, as opposed to soundbites and a general 1.5-page press release. It needs far more detailed assessment than that, particularly around the rental market. It states the political system has been too reactive in terms of some of the proposals and that that has done more harm than good. The party opposite needs to examine that aspect of it too. It seems to me what the Housing Commission proposes is not exactly what has been happening in the House for the past five or six years, which seems to be about measures to dampen investment.

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