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

The Government today decided to extend rent pressure zones until the end of 2021 and to change how the qualification criteria for how rent pressure zones are calculated, essentially to separate Dublin from the rest of the country because rents are much higher in Dublin and, therefore, the qualification criteria of having to be above the national average needs to change for outside of Dublin. The Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, will outline the changes agreed today at Cabinet in some detail in the coming days.

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