Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2021-07-01
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

I apologise to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle that she had to endure that display, ring her bell and be shouted over and shouted down by Deputy Doherty again.
Deputy Doherty said that I need to get real. He needs to calm down. The constant display every Thursday of aggression, nastiness, fury and anger is all preplanned and done for his social media video he will put out in a few minutes or an hour's time. Everyone knows that. Let us have a rational grown up conversation about housing policy and about what are the right and the wrong things to do. As a Government, we have displayed on a number of occasions that we have been willing to change our policy where we think it needs to be changed. That is why we changed the law in relation to stamp duty to stop investment funds buying up houses and housing estates in the way they were doing so. It is why we are now changing the law to bring rent controls so that people living in rent pressure zones will see their rent increases linked to the consumer price index, CPI. Let us have a grown up conversation about policy. Let us talk about the pros and cons.

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Sitting date: 2021-07-01