Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions Dail Éireann — 2023-02-21 ============================================================ Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West We have the rent pressure zones. Because of these, according to Daft.ie, the vast majority of people who are renting, those who are established sitting renters and existing tenants, saw rents increase by about 3.5% last year. The huge problem we have is with very high rents on properties that are new to the market. The only thing we can do about that is increase supply. Deputy McDonald objects to increased supply----- --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2023-02-21/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:51:36+00:00 Sitting date: 2023-02-21