Seanad debates
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage
10:30 am
Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Off the top of my head, I am not. I will have to look into that. When rent caps were brought in, people said it would create a two-tier rental sector. Some people’s rent would be controlled and people just outside the rent control area would be under pressure in respect of rent increases. One of the issues Senator Murnane O'Connor raised was that some people felt they were being left outside controls they should have been in because there was hyperinflation of their rents. Changing the qualifying criteria should work to address the anomaly that we have seen as it has spread beyond Dublin and the greater Dublin area, GDA. If that is occurring in an LEA but I cannot think of any this would work to address it.
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