Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Berlin imposed a totally pathetic form of rent control, which only controlled rents for apartments or houses built before 2014. Anything built after 2014 they can charge what they like. So what happened? Rents for apartments and houses built before 2014 were stabilised and everything else went through the roof. I asked the Taoiseach to look at what they have done in France, which is working. They did it in July 2019, in Lille and Paris, where they set rents at affordable levels. These were reference rents and you cannot put rents above these certain levels that are considered affordable. Since then, 20 other French cities have applied to the minister to impose the same form of rent controls because they are working. Why will the Taoiseach not to do that?

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