Aideen Hayden (Labour) | Oireachtas source

That was good of the Acting Chairman and I thank him.

Finally, I welcome the important Living City initiative. Here I make one request also: that it be extended to renovations that do not necessary relate to owner occupation. Many of the properties to which the Living City initiative applies are accommodation of the "Strumpet City" type in the private rented sector. It is important, particularly in the context of the inner cities of, for example, Dublin, Limerick and Waterford - and places such as Dún Laoghaire, where there are rented inhabited pre-1914 properties - that owners are not discouraged from renovating them because they happen to be in the rental sector.

I thank the Minister for being in the House.