Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The programme for Government included a commitment to legislate for the end of upward-only rents. Yesterday's court judgment in a case involving Bewley's of Grafton Street means that rents can only rise and cannot fall to the market value. It seems that low and middle income earners can have their wages dictated to by the markets, but this does not apply to the landlords who own these properties.

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