Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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I have two questions for Dr. O'Toole. He should respond very briefly because we have only two minutes. To go back to the issue of rent pressure zones, let us be very blunt. The three options are to raise the cap for the existing zones, allow a reset to new market rents between tenancies and fully exempt new stock over an extended period. Is it fair to say a trade-off is that if any one of those is chosen, rents for existing renters will rise more than they would otherwise?