Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Maurice Deverell:

We carried out a survey in which 46% of our members indicated subletting had occurred. In other words, where tenants are living in a properties and where the landlords did not give permission for them to be there. It is happening all over.

It makes perfect sense. If a tenant is stuck on an old 2015 rent plus 2% for all the years going forward and is now getting the property so cheaply, while their mate is coming in from wherever, why would that person not make €200 a month out of it or whatever?