Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
Dail Éireann — 2022-02-17
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Steven Matthews (GP), Wicklow

I am glad to hear that. The Minister will be aware from the work of Government, including Housing for All and the €4 billion per annum budget we are putting in to provide public housing and cost rental housing, and that we are addressing tenancies of indefinite duration. We have brought in five or six Acts during Covid to protect tenants in their tenancies. We applied the 2% rent cap during this time of high inflation. I refer to the Affordable Housing Act, the Land Development Agency Act and all of the work the Government is doing to provide secure tenancies, supply of housing and public housing on public land, with 100% public housing on public land in Cork and Dublin.
This is just one area that we need to address. It concerns people who are very vulnerable. Given the placement of these advertisements, these may not even be legitimate tenancies. I understand the difficulty is to try to identify where the problems exist and what the applicable laws are. I trust the Minister has this in hand and commend the work she has done on preventing sexual abuse and gender-based violence. I am sure she is continuing that work.

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Sitting date: 2022-02-17