212. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the increase in rent a room relief is universal or solely for multi-room lets; and the assessment or analysis carried out on the likely impact this will have on rents charged. [72388/26]
Topics / Rental Sector
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsRental Sector
378 questions from 86 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 13 October 2026.
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366 written, 12 oral
86
TDs have asked
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Independents counted together
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departments asked
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| January 2025 | 5 |
| February 2025 | 21 |
| March 2025 | 10 |
| April 2025 | 12 |
| May 2025 | 13 |
| June 2025 | 16 |
| July 2025 | 28 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 20 |
| October 2025 | 20 |
| November 2025 | 30 |
| December 2025 | 15 |
| January 2026 | 52 |
| February 2026 | 32 |
| March 2026 | 23 |
| April 2026 | 25 |
| May 2026 | 19 |
| June 2026 | 16 |
| July 2026 | 15 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 4 |
| October 2026 | 2 |
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The questions
348. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of HAP tenancies registered to cost-rental properties with an approved housing body or a local authority as a landlord; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [69831/26]
82. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has plans to review the tenant (incremental) purchase scheme. [69032/26]
43. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he expects to implement the Short-Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025 by the end of the year. [67404/26]
231. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the current legislative timeline for the full implementation of the Short-Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025 and the establishment of the short-term letting register; and the specific measures being taken to ensure local authorities are adequately resourced to enforce the associated planning regulations. [67200/26]
683. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the enforcement mechanisms available to the RTB to identify, investigate and prosecute landlords who fail to register tenancies; to address the reported discrepancy between CSO estimates of private rentals and the number of tenancies registered with the RTB; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64516/26]
360. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether consideration will be given to extending the RAS pilot to cities outside of Dublin namely Cork, Galway, Limerick and Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54343/26]
361. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the implementation of the 23 recommendations contained in the Review of the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) published in January 2025; the number of recommendations fully implemented to date; the timeline for the remaining modifications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54346/26]
438. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of active cost-rental tenancies in operation and to provide a breakdown of the number of cost-rental tenancies by cost-rental landlord (details supplied). [53653/26]
444. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51006/26]
454. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of the proposed rent increases for residents of a facility (details supplied), whereby monthly rents are proposed to increase from approximately €371 to €571, with some individual tenants facing increases of up to 176%; his views on whether such increases are compatible with the objectives of social housing; and if …
456. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether he will consider introducing additional statutory protections for older persons living in approved housing body accommodation to ensure that tenants on fixed incomes are not subject to excessive rent increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51242/26]
457. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the oversight his Department exercises over rent-setting policies of approved housing bodies funded under the capital assistance scheme; whether his Department has the power to intervene where proposed rent increases would cause financial hardship to elderly social housing tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5…
458. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether he has examined extending rent pressure zone protections, or introducing equivalent rent increase limits, to approved housing bodies providing social housing under the capital assistance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51244/26]
460. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether he will review the operation of the economic value provisions applied by approved housing bodies in determining rents, particularly in the case of elderly tenants living in social housing funded by the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51246/26]
272. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if, in view of continuing trends of landlords exiting the private rental sector and the increase in notices of termination recorded by the Residential Tenancies Board in Q1 2026, he will review the taxation treatment of individual landlords with a view to supporting rental supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50330/26]
330. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has conducted an assessment of the extent to which recent tenancy law reforms have contributed to landlords exiting the private rental market; the findings of such an assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50329/26]
333. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, given Residential Tenancies Board data showing a record number of notices of termination issued during Q1 2026, he will undertake a review of the impact of the Residential Tenancies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2026 on landlord participation in the private rental sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50362/26…
145. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance to examine changes to the taxation of rental income, including the expansion of existing rental income reliefs, in order to encourage continued and new participation by private landlords in the residential rental sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50313/26]
199. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to acknowledge the importance of the tourism industry by ensuring that planning applications in respect of all those involved in short-term lets are given favourable consideration in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50282/26]
204. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is concerned that the increase in notices of termination recorded by the Residential Tenancies Board during Q1 2026 may lead to a further reduction in rental supply; whether he intends to introduce measures aimed at retaining existing landlords in the market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50312/26]
84. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to introduce measures to reduce cost-rental rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47823/26]
85. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the measures he is taking to address rent increases in Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48101/26]
133. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the timescale for merging social and cost rental housing over time to form a single affordable rental sector, based on the principle of cost recovery as referenced in Delivering Homes, Building Communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48199/26]
152. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the way in which the new short-term letting regulations will return vacant homes to the rental market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48050/26]