I refer to the article ‘AG asked to review rent crisis’ (March 28) and I would like to make the following comments.

I do not think that the term crisis is appropriate when used in connection with an anomalous situation which has been dragging on for over 70 years. The human rights aspect is at last being recognised by the courts, as in duty bound, but it has been self-evident for decades.

I am tickled pink by the reference to “stratospheric rises” in rent levels. The latest update on the still considerable number of controlled rents was to raise them, on a one-size-fits-all basis, to €185 per annum, or 50 cents per day, half the cost of the daily newspaper. Even for a nine-roomed house in a prime area!

And what is to be expected for the pending case of clubs where in many cases the political parties are judge and jury?

Does anyone remember that rural leases – except where the government is the landlord – have been frozen for nearly a century? The farmers, often part-time and having other jobs, hold the owners to ransom, often asking more than the full value of the land to free it for the owners or for third parties.

Wake up!