Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)

New tenancies, new builds and new apartments that will come on stream, hopefully, because this is about supply. With the greatest respect in the world, if we had adopted half of what Deputy Murphy proposed we would have no supply at all in the market. That is the fundamental difference. We need more apartments, we need more houses and we need more in the rental market.

In many instances, when the RPZs originally came in, many people were still well below market rates. If a tenant exits voluntarily and leaves, the tenancy can then reset to market rate. In my view that is reasonable.

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