Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2026-02-26
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Pearse Doherty (SF), Donegal

Does the Tánaiste not know that, from Monday on, every single new renter will be hit by these increases? He stands there and justifies it and his backbenchers applaud it. That is exactly what the Government has done. I have made the point clearly that this is just one landlord – the largest landlord in the State with 3,600 properties – but other big landlords can do the same. Some 60,000 new tenancies are created every single year. The Tánaiste accepts, does he not, that every single one of those new tenancies can now see their rents jacked up? That is the reality. This is the first fund which came out and said in black and white to its investors, "Happy days, lads, the Government has just put millions of euro into our pockets. We can jack up rents by 25% and we see one in seven of our tenants leave every single year, so we will start to see these returns in year one."

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Sitting date: 2026-02-26