Watch: The balance between protecting tenants and landlords

We need to find the right balance between protecting the rights of tenants, and protecting landlords. Obviously it’s important that we protect tenants from landlords that seek to take advantage of them, or who unfairly want to evict them. However, we also need to ensure that the rights of landlords, to evict problem tenants or those who refuse to pay what they owe, are protected.

I was on the Sunday Politics last weekend discussing how we can strike that balance.