Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

It is very good we have a discussion of how this actually pans out. The Department pays for 40% of rented accommodation in this country. Sinn Féin needs to take into account who are the other people who pay rent. They are mostly low income workers and students. Does Sinn Féin want to drive up rents, as is implied in the motion, for those people? It needs to think about the policy it is advocating.