Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I congratulate Senator Quinn on bringing forward the Bill. It is absurd that upward-only rents cannot be contested in a recession and in the interest of the public good, as many Senators have said. It is worth testing in the interest of the public good. We have 1.8 million people at work and half of them, or 900,000, work in the SME sector. If we want to boost the economy, this is the one way to do it. Therefore, let us bring in the Attorney General, as Senator Zappone has said.