The Bill will make an already dire housing crisis even worse by allowing landlords charging extortionate rents that are unaffordable for huge numbers of people to reset those rents to even higher levels. Not one witness who came before the Oireachtas joint committee on housing said this Bill would result in rents not rising any more or rents falling, and rents need to fall.
All the renters in those counties will face higher market rents, because all landlords will be able to bring the rent up to market rent when a tenant moves out or every six years in the new tenancies in those parts of the country, and they will not see one new unit from these measures.
Key terms by TF-IDF across 18,433 words from 17 speakers. The summary quotes the highest-scoring sentences verbatim — nothing is paraphrased.
Tellers: Tá, Deputies Conor Sheehan and Rory Hearne; Níl, Deputies Mary Butler and Emer Currie.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Amendment put: | Carried | 77–66 |
| Question put: | Carried | 73–68 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 69–81 |
| Question again put: | Carried | 80–70 |
| Amendment put: | Carried | 82–68 |
| Amendment put: | Carried | 89–61 |
| Question put: "That the motion, as amended, be agreed to." | Carried | 88–61 |
| Amendment put: | Carried | 80–69 |
| Question put: "That the motion, as amended, be agreed to." | Carried | 80–69 |
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