At the weekend, the Taoiseach's appalling new rules for renters came into effect. To mark that change, we learned of the eviction notices issued to 36 homes in Wexford, all owned by the same large landlord, right in the heart of the housing Minister's own constituency. My colleague Deputy Lawlor has been dealing with the families involved, in excess of 100 people including many children, many of whom will not qualify for the housing assistance payment, HAP, or the council housing list. The Taoiseach's new law is unleashing fear on the people he is meant to represent, and there is nothing but silence from the housing Minister. It seems that the Minister had to wait for his civil servants to come back to work this week to explain his own law to him. It seems the law is so complex that he was not able to provide any clarification to the families affected. There are two questions. If the Minister for housing cannot understand his own laws, how on earth is any renter meant to know their rights now? Second, we are all seeing a real-time surge in notices to quit. The Wexford case is a really serious and extreme example-----

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Is the Taoiseach monitoring this situation? We are seeing more and more-----

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-----eviction notices.

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It was the same weekend.

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A radical reset-----

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That is not true.

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We are not-----

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We are not sitting on any fence.

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