Paul Gavan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Fine Gael has an opportunity to do something for tenants. Rather than talk about it I suggest Fine Gael does something positive. We are here to legislate. We have an excellent proposal for civic engagement that Fine Gael will not back.

I am disappointed with Fianna Fáil. I accept the bona fides of my colleagues here. They want to do something but there is a problem. I do not know whether it is the deal the party has with the Government or there has been a genuine mishap. This is the fourth occasion on which Fianna Fáil will vote down rent certainty. Again, it is the wrong decision and lets down the very people who are in crisis. I would like to hear a little less about landlords in crisis and a little more about the real people who are in crisis. I refer to the people who have been made homeless and the people who I met last week who will be homeless by Christmas with three children under the age of ten. The tenants are not being left in the lurch. What a statement to make.