Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)

The Deputy opposite has made assertions in his Leaders' Question and I am quite entitled to respond to them. The bottom line here is supply. There is nothing coming from him on supply. The Housing Commission recommended reform of the RPZ scheme. The Social Democrats welcomed the Housing Commission report at the time and attacked Government for the failure to respond to it. I remember it well in the Dáil. All of the Members did. The Minister then got the Housing Agency to do a review of the RPZs, which are coming to expire at the end of the year anyway. When we announced that review and I referenced a few things in February, all of the Deputies opposite jumped up and said I was eliminating RPZs, the rent pressure framework and so on. All of this was untrue. It was just polemics. It was hysterical hyperbole. That is all it was. There was no substance to it at all-----

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