Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On the daft.iereport, it is important to note that its figures relate to a sample of rents advertised on that particular website and do not include people who remain in the same apartment or house year on year. That is the reason the figures are as they are. The RTB figures are far more accurate and cover the entire rental market. They indicate that rents are rising too fast, but certainly not at the rate Deputy McDonald described.

For her information, Limerick is not a rent pressure zone. Perhaps it ought to be, but it is not.

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