I agree with the speaker across the floor who wanted to put a rocket under Uisce Éireann but I would say that it would take a hell of lot more. Unfortunately, it has been protected long enough by Government. It is a law unto itself right now. There is a massive housing crisis now, not alone in the want of housing but also for the people who have the houses. I hate calling them landlords because they are house owners. The way they are being treated and the way they have spoken to me with worry in the last few weeks about legislation that is coming through here, they have had it. They are running and getting the hell out of the market because we have treated them so badly. We have left them wide open and we need to turn it around. They have no protections. The other day, I spoke to a man in Skibbereen. He has a guy in his house who does not give a damn. He told the man that he would not pay because he knew that he would get a year or a year and a half's grace and he could laugh at the house owner.

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Stop, please. When the tenant meets the man on the road he is hooting at him and putting the thumbs up, because the knows the RTB and everyone else is there to protect the tenant but there is no one to protect the landlord. Someone needs to talk on behalf of the house owners. I want avoid using the word "landlord" as much as I can. Imagine, a year to year and a half, and he will not have to bat an eyelid. It will not worry him, because he is quite safe and he will get protected. It is time to kick these people out. One or two months without paying, the hell out the door they should be put and end of story. The RTB is asleep at the wheel. We need to move on and straighten it out. Some people want to get out of the market at the moment and they said that they cannot sell a vacant tenancy. They are in an awful state. I am getting phone calls from all over the place on this. A while ago Deputy Danny Healy-Rae told me he is getting the same barrage of phone calls. This needs to be moved on immediately.

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