Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

What Deputy Pearse Doherty is saying is correct in the scenario where there is a change in tenancy. In theory, though, a landlord could always ask a tenant to leave after six months and then increase the rent for a new tenant. That position has not changed under this amendment, except that now the rent increase will be limited to 4%

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