Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)

The programme for Government had a clear commitment to progressively increase the renters' tax credit. Obviously, that promise was broken in yesterday's budget and as a consequence the vast majority if not all of the renters' tax credit will be swallowed up by rental increases based on the most recent data from Daft. Likewise, an increasing number of people who apply for cost rental projects are refused access because they do not meet the affordability test. They earn too much to be eligible for social housing but enough to be eligible for the unaffordable cost rental rents.

Will the Minister tell us what is in budget 2026? What actions is he going to take to tackle the rip-off rents not only in the private sector but increasingly in the cost rental sector?

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