Eoin O'Brien

Well, I would say this, and this is to respond directly to Seamus.

The delay here is government.

It's, like I said, 2018 since we first proposed a better version of this.

It's 15 months since the minister proposed this.

Only four weeks ago, Fianna Fáil and Fianna Gael were fighting with each other, saying they were going to introduce this to cabinet and then withdrawing it.

So let's get the regs.

Let's undertake proper scrutiny.

Let's make sure we don't create a new subcategory of renter

with no rights at risk of bad exploitation for poor quality expense.

Well, let Seamus come back on that.

Well, there will be no protections for tenants.

The government has made it clear in all of the media briefings this morning that

that these arrangements will not be tenancies protected by rent regulation, protected by security of tenure.

They will be licenses and licensees have no rights whatsoever.

And again, it's not just that government is going to extend

the rental room arrangements to these, they're going to change the law to strip what otherwise would be tenants of any rights.

So I don't see anything or hear anything of what Seamus has said that addresses that.

But look, again, I'll make the point.

Yes to flexibility for families, no to exploitation of renters with poor quality accommodation, high rents, but let's get the regs, let's scrutinise them fully, let's hear from the experts, and then we can decide how to proceed.

But what I will say is this, the reason why