Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 9:

In page 11, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:“(2) For the purposes of this section, the entirety of the Carrigaline local electoral area, shall be deemed to be a rent pressure zone.”.

This issue was raised with me by Councillor Michael Frick Murphy and by Deputy Ó Laoghaire. Rent pressure zones were applied to city council areas, some electoral areas and counties, including the Ballincollig-Carrigaline municipal district in Cork. Some of these electoral areas have since been revised. Last month, Deputy Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Coveney, if the southern end of Carrigaline would fall under the new Carrigaline municipal district and become a rent pressure zone. He confirmed that it would. However, in response to a parliamentary question, the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government confirmed that, "The areas of Fountainstown, Myrtleville and Crosshaven will be contained in the Carrigaline LEA and will come under the remit of Cork County Council and as such will not become RPZs by virtue of the change to the boundary." It raises the bizarre situation that different rules apply within the same local electoral area, which is surely bad policy from an administrative point of view for landlords and tenants. One part of the LEA is not protected from spiralling rents while another part is. From my understanding the rents at the southern end of Carrigaline are high.