Can we expect a decision on rent certainty, which has been the subject of long-standing discussions, to be made as a matter of urgency? Will legislation be introduced? When will an announcement be made? Is the Taoiseach aware that the vast bulk of the 79 families who became homeless the month before last were evicted by landlords after massive rent increases were imposed? Can we expect urgent action and legislation on rent certainty in the coming days?

I dealt at length with the question of rent yesterday and the day before. We do not want to do something that is going to make the situation worse.

Eighty families have been evicted.

I can confirm that the Ministers for the Environment, Community and Local Government and Finance, and their respective Departments, are working on a package of measures that we hope will deal with a number of these problems. The shortage of supply of houses in the first place is central to the problems in question.