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

Regarding the rent caps, rent increases are set at a maximum of 4%. That has given hundreds of thousands of people already renting a house or an apartment a degree of certainty about their rent. However, it has a knock-on effect, in some cases a negative one, on people who need to move or people who are renting for the first time. That is the downside to rent controls. However, it gives people who are in existing tenancies, who are renting apartments and houses, a degree of certainty they never had before. The Deputy mentioned landlords attempting to evict tenants.

I do not know the exact details of the case the Deputy mentioned. Since he stated that there was an attempt to evict, I assume it was unsuccessful. This would indicate that the law was on the side of the tenants and was successfully upheld.

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