Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)

If the Deputy reads the Housing Agency report - and I invite her to do so in its entirety - and looks at the ESRI analysis of the rental market, in reviewing both the domestic and international literature and so on, she will see there has been a negative impact, particularly in 2021, on measures we took on supply into the residential market. That is in the report. There must be a balance. I take it the Deputy wants investment into the private sector. If one does not tie it or give people certainty about the CPI, why would anyone invest in the future if they could endure a loss? People are not going to do that. We need a bit of practical reality here. That is the point. The balance has to be right and we have got that balance right while protecting tenants to an even greater degree-----

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