Dáil debates

Thursday, 1 December 2016

Questions on Proposed Legislation

 

1:05 pm

Photo of Joan BurtonJoan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Yesterday I was approached by somebody who rents a one-and-a-half bed apartment in Clonee in Meath for about €860 a month. The person has been advised by the landlord that when the two-year moratorium on rent increases, which my colleague, Deputy Alan Kelly, introduced, finishes in March, the rent will go up to €1,200. In Dublin 7, in the Manor Street area, two-beds are renting at the moment for €1,800. I raised a Topical Issue Matter with the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government three weeks ago. All his recent statements indicate that, notwithstanding the extraordinary additional jump that has taken place in the last couple of months, he is setting his face against any kind of rent control. For the sake of people at work who are paying their rent out of their income, will he give consideration to rent control?

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