Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Minister, Deputy Chambers, and I are aware of this issue of people who, late in life, find themselves in a position where they do not own their own home, do not qualify for social and affordable housing, and rent is going up or maybe their rental accommodation is uncertain. With regard to what we are doing in relation to it, this is why funding we are making available to the Department of housing matters so much and it is why we are trying to increase the availability of social and public housing year after year. It is also why the rent control measures brought in by the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, and measures brought in previously by the then Minister, Eoghan Murphy, are an important part of how we try to maintain the affordability and stability of rent. I point to those two particular measures as the way in which we are trying over time to deal with the very urgent matter the Deputy referred to.