Niall Collins

I'm not trying to misrepresent it.

60% of the termination notices that were received in quarter one of this year relate to landlords who are selling the properties.

That's also clear in the data and you're not prepared to acknowledge that.

And also, as I said earlier on... Absolutely, you put in place a no-fault eviction ban, landlords can sell their property and the tenant stays in place.

The number of landlords now entering the marketplace has increased.

So, look, there is going to be a period of change.

And I think we all have to accept that.

Look, Rory, as I said to you, you can speak to one side of the debate.

Well, the reality is that we have to deal, as I said, with the issue from both perspectives.

And we have to try and arrive at an accommodation which serves the public interest.

And the public interest is that we have to have

a clear environment where we can attract in private equity investment into the marketplace to help with our housing supply.

We've also, as I said to you, set out clear changes in relation to the guidelines and the rights which tenants can enjoy in relation to their tenancies.

Nobody said that this was going to be easy.

As I said, Rory Ahern speaks to one side of the issue,

And we have to speak to both sides of it.

This is one of the issues that I'm dealing with the Limerick City and County Council local authority because we had one of the lowest housing completions last year, which I'm hugely concerned about as a public representative here.

representing Limerick and we're going through a process where I want to see a far greater amount of land made available for development.

There's been a process, as you know, before Christmas where there was an invitation for submissions to change zoning and for people to

make applications to the local authority to zone land.