Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate the Senator's point. If the property is in as poor a condition as the Senator states it is, needs significant works but is still unable to get around the BER exemption, it cannot have been let on the market any time soon. In which case, when the landlord brings it to market after the works are done, he or she will be able to set it at a market rent. That will not change. That balance is there. We will publish the information and keep it under review, as we do with everything. Let us wait and see what the people involved in this work think about the possibilities to get the BER rating there. Again, when we talk about significant investments, examples of which have been given to me regarding properties, they cannot have been rented any time soon in which case they will not be bound by the first rent setting relating to a rent pressure zone.