Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

In some parts of the country renters have been hit with staggering rent increases of up to 75%. This is utterly unacceptable and no renter can afford those kinds of increases. The way in which the rent pressure zones rules have been written means that those parts of the country will never be declared a rent pressure zone. Is the Tánaiste aware of this problem, what is the Government going to do about it and will the rent pressure zones be extended to cover the whole country?

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