The Bill aims to clearly provide that the maximum amount of money to be provided to a landlord to secure a tenancy cannot exceed the value of two months' rent, that any advance rent payment cannot exceed one month's rent and that any deposit cannot exceed one month's rent either. In our view, the Bill should include much more serious, effective and comprehensive measures to protect tenants from eviction and rent increases they simply cannot afford when one considers that the vast majority of tenants are already paying absolutely obscene levels of rent.
On top of that, because of the blanket restriction on further rent increases that the Minister rightly introduced during the pandemic but which has now been lifted, we face a situation where the two rolled-up 4% increases over two years can mean that people are facing 8% rent increases on top of those kinds of rents.
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Tellers: Tá, Deputies Cian O'Callaghan and Eoin Ó Broin; Níl, Deputies Brendan Griffin and Jack Chambers.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Amendment put: | Lost | 51–76 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 53–75 |
| Amendment put: | Carried | 75–51 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 21–77 |
| Question put: "That the motion be agreed to." | Carried | 87–7 |
| Question put: | Carried | 91–6 |
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