Cabinet ministers have played down the extent of any Cabinet row on a resolution to the rental crisis.

Ministers from both Fine Gael and Labour say plans are progressing to provide some sort of solution to stop rents from spiraling out of control.

Labour's Brendan Howlin says the Cabinet will come to a solution in the coming weeks.

"Obviously we have continue to see is there any other mechanism we can use and rents certainly is one of the things I think we need to have in the short term" he said.

"How to go about that in a sustainable way that doesn't do harm to the market is what all of us in government are combining our efforts to resolve" he added.

Mr Howlin is the latest to dismiss suggestions of a worsening row between Finance Minister Michael Noonan and Enviromnment Minister Alan Kelly over plans for 'rent certainty'.

And Minister Noonan - who is opposing plans to link rent increases to inflation - says he and Alan Kelly are still working together to strike a deal.