The private rented sector has more than doubled in recent years and one in five families currently live there.

A conference in Dublin has been hearing about the problems and solutions for Generation Rent.

Juliette Gash reports;

The Environment Minister hopes to bring a number of measures around rent certainty to Cabinet before the Summer recess.

A major conference in Dublin today heard that a generation of Irish people are unlikely to own their own home for the next decade.

Rents have risen nationally by around eight percent in the past year, and tenants complain of a lack of supply of properties, and a lack of certainty once they're in.

Minister Alan Kelly says he is prioritising the issue;