The third revelation is that capping rent allowances is supposed to push down rents. What it will actually do is push poor people out on the street. This has been a desired objective of the Department of Finance for many years. The Department did not like an open-ended guarantee to anybody in need of housing that their rent would be covered if they could find accommodation. It has been trying to get rid of this socially correct measure for the past 20 years and has now got it from the Government under a smokescreen about rent stabilisation. There is no point in telling young people in this city that rents have stabilised. During the week The Irish Times published a letter from a young man with a good job who could not afford a single room in this city, yet the Government claims that rents have gone down while poor people are being pushed out of private rented accommodation. Nobody believes the Government on the issue.