Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Will the Minister either change the legislation, which would be a very small change, or introduce regulation under the legislation? It is not fair. If one looks at the areas in Dublin, by and large an urban area is an urban area. A local electoral area is either rural or urban but if one looks at a place like Limerick or Waterford, both have extensive rural parts of their counties included in the local electoral areas we are talking about. It means renters in the urban parts of those local electoral areas have to put up with really high rent increases that are causing homelessness. The Minister needs to look at it.

I remember the Minister's predecessor stating that he expected parts of Limerick to be included in the rent pressure zones very quickly. There is clearly a need to look at this again. We passed this legislation at some ungodly hour of the night in December 2016.

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