As the Tánaiste knows, a cross-departmental working group is examining legislation to ensure the responsibilities of landlords under the Residential Tenancies Acts apply to banks, vulture funds and receivers when they repossess properties. There was disturbing news in the Irish Examiner today that approximately 20,000 mortgage repossession cases that were adjourned will be back before the courts this year. In my view, we will see a significant increase in the level of home repossessions, including properties of buy-to-let landlords. When will this working group report and when will the legislation be introduced? If there is, as we suspect, a dramatic increase in the number of home repossessions, will the Tánaiste bring forward the timeline for the legislation so tenants are given the adequate protections they so rightly deserve?

I will ask the Minister to communicate directly with the Deputy on the matter.