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reset, allows landlords to exploit the gap between tenancies, hiking rents to exorbitant, so-called market rates. This is not policy; it is profiteering. Analysis shows this will claw extra thousands of euro from renters annually, pushing more people into poverty and insecurity. In Meath East already … bedroom apartments go for in the region of €2,000 to €2,600. What we are faced with here are rents far in excess of that, rents that will be simply unaffordable. The Government's duty is to protect citizens and not portfolios. Instead of cutting and freezing

cent, which is applied to gas and electricity to 2030; — a continuation of the €400 income tax disregard for certain profits arising from the micro-generation of electricity for a further three years to end 2028; and — an extension of the Accelerated Capital Allowances scheme for energy efficient … competitiveness of the Irish economy'; — while electricity credits previously played an important role, it should be noted that, despite costing in excess of €3.3 billion, this measure did not permanently reduce the cost of electricity nor are they fiscally sustainable, therefore, the Government has prioritised measures which reduce

there were fewer than 1,000 staff across the relevant bodies with vacancy rates already above 10%. We already have excessive delays. Decisions are already taking far too long and appeals even longer still. Now the Government proposes rigid EU-mandated deadlines without the staffing, infrastructure, or legal … need the pact to fix the delays in the appeals system. We definitely do not need the pact to stop the wild profiteering. Those failures fall at the Minister's feet and the feet of this Government. The committee also raised serious concerns about the impact of this

urgently. Every week, every month and every year there is a constant and growing flow of households, which having waited sometimes in excess of ten years on housing lists, sometimes just before they are allocated a house are thrown off the housing list. This might be because they … social housing. It means that a large amount of revenue that is currently going into the pockets of corporate landlords who are profiteering from the housing crisis will come back to the State to maintain and build social housing. It is win-win-win for society and those

this Act, (b) the methodology used in determining the cap, including consideration of value for money, regional cost variations, and the avoidance of excessive reliance on emergency or ad hoc accommodation arrangements, and (c) the date on which the cap shall come into operation. (3) The Minister shall … with the numbers of people coming. Costs are going to increase when we are accommodating more people. That is a given. That is profiteering. I will use term again unapologetically when we have a situation where there is a 70% increase, not in the overall costs