Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 141:

In page 35, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following:“Amendment of section 19 of the Act of 2004 to introduce emergency rent controls linked to the Consumer Price Index for all existing rental dwellings, both between and within tenancies

27. The Act of 2004 is amended by the substitution of the following for section 19:

“19. (1) In setting the rent under a tenancy for a dwelling that has previously been the subject of a tenancy, an amount of rent shall not be provided for that is greater than the amount of rent last set for that dwelling, whether under that tenancy or a previous tenancy, plus the rate of inflation since the rent was last set, as indicated in the latest Consumer Price Index calculated by the Central Statistics Office.

(2) In setting the rent under a tenancy for a dwelling that has not previously been the subject of a tenancy, an amount of rent shall not be provided for that is greater than the amount of rent currently charged for 3 dwellings of similar size, type and character, and situated in a comparable area, as notified to the Residential Tenancies Board.

(3) In this section, ‘the rent last set for that dwelling’ is a reference to the rent last notified in respect of the dwelling in question to the Residential Tenancies Board.”.”.