With regard to existing rents, including those renters allegedly protected by the rent pressure zones, State-wide average rents were €1,440 and in Dublin they were €1,865. Last year, average rents for existing renters, 83% of whom are in rent pressure zones, rose by 4.6%. What the Government is changing is that when a new tenant comes into that property, the landlord will be able to increase the rent to the market rent.
When a tenant leaves the property and a new tenant comes in, the rent will be able to increase to market rent. It is not true for the Government to say it is protecting renters, because those new renters who are trying to find properties have to then pay the market rent. There has been a call for a rent freeze for renters.
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Tellers: Tá, Deputies Eoin Ó Broin and Pádraig Mac Lochlainn; Níl, Deputies Mary Butler and Emer Currie.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Amendment put: | Lost | 66–87 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 67–87 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 65–86 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 65–86 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 65–82 |
| Amendment put: | Carried | 83–67 |
| Amendment put: | Carried | 83–67 |
| Question put: "That the motion, as amended, be agreed to." | Carried | 83–67 |
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