7. Plaid Cymru Debate: The private rental sector

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:59 pm on 12 October 2022.

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Photo of Janet Finch-Saunders Janet Finch-Saunders Conservative 5:59, 12 October 2022

Yes, can I make an intervention? [Laughter.] I beg your pardon. Would you withdraw the comments that you've just made about landlords doing their properties up out of the public purse and then selling them on? That is not allowed. If you have one of the lease agreements with any local authority where they give you money—I think at the moment it's about £25,000—you have to pay that money back before you can sell your property. So, that does need to be taken back, because that's making out that private landlords are actually making money out of the public purse, and that is not correct.