Mr Kenny said: "The Programme for Government contains a commitment to introduce a rent deposit scheme and legislation is currently before the Dáil to follow through on this important policy goal. The report examines the options for a deposit protection scheme. Over the coming weeks, the options in the report will be weighed up the best way to offer the greatest protection to tenants in this area will be decided at. This will be done at the least cost to the Exchequer. These are complex issues but delivering on deposit protection in the context of the current Bill, is important.
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"One of the most significant aspects of the Bill is the inclusion of dwellings let by approved housing bodies (AHBs) within the remit of the Residential Tenancies Act. This will extend to the large majority of not-for-profit AHB sector the same range of tenant and landlord rights and obligations as pertain in the private rented sector.
"I want to commend Minister for Housing and Planning, Jan O'Sullivan, for the hard work she is doing in this area and also the excellent work done by Threshold in terms of the housing rights of the less well-off in society and I look forward to engagement with them on the housing reform agenda over the course of 2013."
(CD/GK)
