Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

What I have seen in my time is that, to get around RPZs, tenants are given notices to quit because their rent might be, let us say, less than what other people would be paying locally. Then the landlord paints the apartment and let it again. I know of cases in Cork, and one building specifically, where the landlord evicted most of the people there because their rent was so low. He did it properly and by the book. He said he was doing work there, and then he charged €300 or €400 extra for each apartment and ended up going into a long-term lease with a local authority. How can we stop that from happening? I get it all the time with regard to what people are paying. There are really good landlords and I recognise that. The vast majority are good, decent people, but sometimes you either get companies or certain landlords who try to maximise the profit because they have looked around. How can we protect tenants from that happening to them?