Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity)
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594. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if plans to prevent landlords from increasing rents to market rates between tenancies where the previous tenant has been evicted on a no fault eviction basis will apply to no fault evictions of pre-June 2022 tenants; who, for example, can be evicted for no reason in the last 6 months of their tenancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39395/25]

Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity)
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595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if plans to prevent landlords from increasing rents to market rates between tenancies where the previous tenant has been evicted on a no fault eviction basis will apply to no fault evictions of tenants with tenancies of indefinite duration for example where the rental property has been sold to a new landlord; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39396/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 594 and 595 together.

On 10 June 2025, the Government approved stronger tenancy protections and greater certainty for the rental sector, including the introduction of a national rent control, as part of a suite of measures to boost the supply of new homes and secure and grow the availability of rental accommodation.

Legislation is being developed in line with the policy changes announced and will be published later this year, which will include rent resetting for new tenancies created (i.e. first time tenancies between parties) from 1 March 2026. It is intended that resetting of rent to market rent will only be allowed where the previous tenant terminated the tenancy, where there was a breach of tenant obligations or where the dwelling no longer suits the accommodation needs of the tenant household. Accordingly, rent resetting will not be allowed following a termination of a Part 4 tenancy (whether or not it is a tenancy of unlimited duration) on any other grounds including intention to sell or following a termination under section 34(b) of Residential Tenancies Acts 2004 to 2025 (which applies to Part 4 tenancies/further Part 4 tenancies created on/before 10 June 2022 that continue to exist).

It is intended to continue, from 1 March 2026, to allow for the rent of a new rental dwelling be set to market value upon the commencement of the first tenancy of that dwelling.