Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 27 July 2021
600. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the date on which sections 6 and 19 of the Residential Tenancies (No 2) Act 2021 was commenced; and if this is the date from which rent reviews within rent pressure zone are linked to the harmonised indices of consumer prices. [39219/21]
View answerThe Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Act 2021 was signed into law on 9 July 2021 and all sections, apart from section 6, came into operation on that date.
Following enactment, the Act was enrolled by the Supreme Court and published on the Irish Statute Book on 15 July 2021. Section 6, which relates to rent setting came into operation on 16 July 2021 on foot of the Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Act (Commencement Order) 2021, which I signed on 15 July 2021, the earliest legally permissable date.
Accordingly, any valid notice of rent review served on or after 16 July 2021 in relation to a tenancy of a dwelling in a Rent Pressure Zone cannot provide for a rent increase that exceeds any inflation, as recorded by the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices, since the last rent setting. The imposition of any rent increase remains subject to any new rent set not exceeding the market rent for that tenancy. Comprehensive information is available on the Residential Tenancies Board’s website – www.rtb.ie.
