Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Yes, for whatever reason. The provision is not in my Bill but it is worth considering.

In response to Deputy Casey's point about rent pressure zones, I have exactly the same situation where there is an expensive urban area attached to a rural part of a local electoral area and it will never be included. They are chasing the average the whole time. We are all agreed on that.

On Deputy Ellis's point relating to the same issue and the 4% being too much in some situations, and Senator Murnane O'Connor's point about three years versus five years, one of the reasons we included that is because there is a previous provision that rent increases would be linked to the consumer price index, CPI. There is a possibility that the consumer price index could go higher than 4% within a time period so it is a question of the point in time when one carries out the review. In some cases it might be disadvantageous to the tenant if the review is not carried out at an earlier stage.