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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)

Simon Coveney: We will be introducing sound, workable legislation-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)

Simon Coveney: -----which will provide more protection for tenants.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)

Simon Coveney: One cannot take a simplistic view of being for tenants and against landlords, or vice versa. We need landlords in the market. It needs to be viable for landlords to operate in and predictable as a marketplace. We also need more protections for tenants. When I was Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, I introduced many extra protections for tenants, to which the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)

Simon Coveney: We need to do more, through legislation, to protect tenants and keep them in their homes without driving landlords out of the market because that would undermine what we are trying to achieve, which is to increase supply. Both things must be factored into policy. Unfortunately, Sinn Féin focuses on one side of the argument only. In time that would create an even bigger problem, if we...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)

Simon Coveney: I am not hearing Deputy Pearse Doherty more clearly just because he is shouting. We consider proposals that come from Sinn Féin and other parties and test them inside and outside the House. The Deputies paint this as though the Government does not want to solve the problem.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)

Simon Coveney: We are listening. Nobody is denying the figures or the fact that there are far too many individuals, families and children who are homeless in Ireland. Rebuilding Ireland is a plan to try to respond to that problem, as well as to a whole series of other challenges in the housing market, a market that was fundamentally broken and that we are fixing. It is important to deal with the facts,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)

Simon Coveney: It is true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)

Simon Coveney: Under Rebuilding Ireland, last year over 27,000 households had their housing needs met. The local authority stock of social housing increased by over 8,000 and this year the figure will be over 10,000. Last year 5,135 individuals exited homelessness into independent tenancies, an increase of 8% on the figure for the previous year. That is a record level of exits out of homelessness in a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)

Simon Coveney: The number of social houses being delivered is higher than at any point in the last decade.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)

Simon Coveney: The truth is there are more families and individuals entering homelessness than, I think, any of us in this House predicted.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)

Simon Coveney: We need to respond from a policy perspective.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)

Simon Coveney: My understanding is the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, will bring a proposal to protect tenants before the Cabinet next week. It will be tested in this House, as it should be. It is important for us to focus on where the problem lies. We are delivering more social houses and also more private and affordable houses, but we are not, unfortunately, overtaking the pace at which people are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)

Simon Coveney: The Government intends to respond by providing more protections for tenants in order to keep them in their homes and out of homelessness.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)

Simon Coveney: It is not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)

Simon Coveney: That is not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)

Simon Coveney: We have work to do to get families and individuals who are homeless into homes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)

Simon Coveney: With a sense of urgency, we have changed the housing market in Ireland. We have introduced rent caps in rent pressure zones.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)

Simon Coveney: They do work.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)

Simon Coveney: In the last quarter of last year there was a slight reduction in rents. There has certainly been a levelling off in Dublin.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2019)

Simon Coveney: Two new areas have been added to the list of rent pressure zones. Is anybody in Navan actually rejecting this? I do not think so. They want to see rent pressure zones in the town in order that they will have more certainty when it comes to rent inflation.