This is a question for the Tánaiste or perhaps the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. As they are aware, residents at the Leeside apartment complex in Cork are facing what is effectively a mass eviction at the hands of a vulture fund, a matter of concern to them but also to many others, given that homelessness in the country stands on the brink of 10,000 people. Is it sufficient that, for legal protection, residents of this kind have guidelines that have been handed down? Should there not be legislation which gives them firm rights in law, including the actual banning of economic evictions of this kind? Is that not more appropriate legislation?

We have discussed this before. Guidelines were issued in the course of last year. I said that if those guidelines need to be put into legislation, I will do that. Earlier this week, I brought heads of a Bill to protect tenants to Cabinet. Some new protections are coming in very quickly. If further legislation is needed, I have indicated that a second Bill is coming for the rental market later in the year. If the guidelines need to be put into law, we will do that at that time. We await the outcome of certain processes before the courts.