Rent Legislation Will Throw Tenants 'to the Wolves'

Keire Murphy: Rental reforms offer some hope for tenants like me, but the overriding feeling is confusion

TDs are due to vote on legislation on Wednesday evening that will bring in changes to the rental sector. The changes to the Residential Tenancies Bill are then expected to take effect next month.

Rent legislation will throw tenants 'to the wolves'

The new rent legislation which is set to be passed by the Dáil tonight will throw renters to the wolves, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said, branding it a huge gift to landlords and vulture funds.

Labour propose amendments to Government's 'deeply flawed' rental legislation

LIMERICK Labour TD and housing spokesperson Conor Sheehan has tabled a series of amendments to what he considers “the deeply flawed rent legislation that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil will ram through the Dáil” this week. Deputy Sheehan hit out that the Government is attempting to rush sweeping changes though the Oireachtas, “threatening the use of the guillotine” to get the “shoddy piece of legislation” through the Dáil on Wednesday. “The bottom li…