Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the Housing for All upfront deposit and rent payments capped at two months value. [17535/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Section 7 of the Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Act 2021 inserts a new section 19B into the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 which applies to tenancies created on or after 9 August 2021, to restrict the total amount that anyone is required to pay to a landlord by way of a deposit or an advance rent payment to secure a tenancy to no more than the equivalent of 2 months’ rent (i.e. any deposit cannot exceed 1 month’s rent and any advance rent payment cannot exceed 1 month’s rent). A restriction of the equivalent of 1 month’s rent is also placed on the amount that a tenant is obliged to pay as a regular advance rent payment to a landlord during a tenancy.