Yesterday I was approached by somebody who rents a one-and-a-half bed apartment in Clonee in Meath for about €860 a month. The person has been advised by the landlord that when the two-year moratorium on rent increases, which my colleague, Deputy Alan Kelly, introduced, finishes in March, the rent will go up to €1,200. In Dublin 7, in the Manor Street area, two-beds are renting at the moment for €1,800. I raised a Topical Issue Matter with the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government three weeks ago. All his recent statements indicate that, notwithstanding the extraordinary additional jump that has taken place in the last couple of months, he is setting his face against any kind of rent control. For the sake of people at work who are paying their rent out of their income, will he give consideration to rent control?

The Deputy's time is up.

He could even extend Deputy Kelly's scheme-----

The Deputy's time is up.

-----to five years until the houses that he is talking about being built are actually built.

The Deputy's time is up, I am sorry.

The former Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, introduced a series of measures that had some positive effects but we want to add to that now. We are committed to doing that.

So extend the period.

I will not give the detail yet because I have to bring it to Cabinet first. That is not unreasonable. We are looking at getting the balance right between protecting tenants, who are vulnerable because of an unsustainable level of rental inflation in Dublin and other parts of the country, and at the same time ensuring we are promoting supply, which in the medium term is the solution. We are trying to do both. We have discussed issues around rent predictability and rent certainty. They are very much part of the considerations. We will be publishing the result of those considerations in about ten days' time.