A landlord and tenant (law reform) Bill is expected to deal with the shortage of accommodation and the legal framework governing the landlord-tenant relationship. In that context, I welcome the long-awaited and long-resisted increase in rent allowance. It took three or four years to convince the Government of the importance of such an increase in preventing more people from becoming homeless. Many landlords are still refusing rent allowance applications. This issue needs to be tackled and the landlord and tenant (law reform) Bill will provide an opportunity to do so.

The programme for Government includes a commitment to establish an electoral commission to "examine the voter registration process and in particular the possibility of the PPS system being used to automatically add people to the electoral register once they reach voting age". When will the commission be established?

The programme for Government states that within 100 days the Government will establish a mobile phone and broadband task force involving various Departments to provide immediate solutions to the broadband-phone coverage deficit. Has this task force been established?

The programme for Government also contains a commitment to ask "the Central Bank of Ireland to instigate a review of the continued appropriateness of the savings limit within a year of the formation of the new Partnership Government". This proposal is to deal with the savings limit that applies to the credit union movement. In addition, it commits to asking the credit union advisory committee to conduct a review and report by the end of this year. Has the Government asked the advisory committee to conduct such a review? Is the Minister confident that the report will be produced by the end of 2016, as the Government has committed?

The landlord and tenant (law reform) Bill has been approved and work is continuing on it. Landlords are accepting 1,000 new tenancies each month for people who are on rent supplement. It is illegal to refuse a tenancy on the basis that the prospective tenant is in receipt of rent supplement. If the Deputy has information on particular cases, he should make us aware of them.

It is a widespread practice.

There are-----

That is a smart aleck response.

Let us recognise the facts.

The practice is widespread.

Landlords are accepting rent supplement recipients for 1,000 new tenancies each month.

Leo must have given the Tánaiste that line.

If the Deputy provides details of cases for my Department, we will pursue them.

We are hearing the usual smart aleck response.

We cannot have a debate on the matter.

If Deputy Micheál Martin is aware of someone who is breaking the law, he has a responsibility to pass on the information. I am not being a smart aleck.

The Minister is not in order.

My apologies.

On the second point raised by Deputy Micheál Martin, as he will be aware, a consultative process was carried out on this issue and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government is considering its outcome.

On the point the Deputy raised about credit unions, this is a priority for the Minister for Finance. I do not know the precise timetable, but I will ask the Minister to revert to the Deputy on the issue.