Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

In fairness, it was Deputy Curran who first spotted it. What has been revealed here is that there is now an incentive for displacement, for tenants to be displaced by their landlords. I asked a question earlier and the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Damien English, nodded his head. I asked if the rent increase limits carry on at the location or address and the Minister of State nodded but they do not. The limits move and shift with a tenant so it is in the landlord's economic interest to evict a tenant, get a new tenant and increase the rent by 4%.

This must be redrafted and discussed in the morning on Committee Stage. This amendment never even reached a committee and this is the folly. The Minister could have put these amendments to the Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government on Tuesday night last.

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