I am glad to be able to speak tonight. I welcome the proactivity of the Minister, Deputy Browne, and his junior Minister from Port Láirge. Is the Minister going to extend the situation whereby commercial properties can be used for housing without planning permission? That is so important. Is he going to do something about backyard developments behind houses, which are not mentioned this plan at all? What about a case in which a man houses himself in a mobile home? Seán Meehan from outside Clonmel in County Tipperary is being brought to the courts for putting up a nice timber house around a mobile home. He needs to be looked after, as do other people like him. There are thousands of Seán Meehans. We need to deal with that issue. We also need to do something meaningful regarding small and accidental landlords, who should not even be called "landlords". These are people with a second, third or fourth property. They are being crucified. They have no rights whatsoever. They are getting no support. The Government needs to make it easy for them, especially now that holiday lets are going to be banned. The Government is going to make the situation worse. Small landlords need to be supported. I hate calling them "landlords" because they are not. The big landlords are very different. We are giving too much say to bad tenants. I love good tenants and we all like good people who pay their way. If you have bad tenants, you must be able to remove them from a house. Those are the things I am asking about. The extension of the ability to transfer commercial property to residential property without requiring planning permission is crucial. We must deal with situations like that of Seán Meehan, who so badly needs his situation rectified. He will be before the courts again in January. There are many more like him. It is not good enough.

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