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Hitting close to home: voters deeply divided over end of eviction ban

The latest Business Post/Red C poll shows 46 per cent of voters opposed to ending the ban on March 31, but 50 per cent in favour of tax breaks for landlords designed to encourage them to stay in the market

Landlords’ lobby group welcomes end of eviction ban after Dáil vote

Irish Property Owners Association says government commitments to provide tax relief to landlords are the ‘first meaningful effort by politicians to recognise the strategic importance of landlords in solving the rental crisis’

Government wins Dáil vote to end temporary eviction ban

Coalition succeeds in pushing through counter motion in response to Sinn Féin’s motion to extend the eviction ban until January next year

Analysis: Hildegarde Naughton looks to rally the troops to vote down Sinn Féin eviction ban motion

The Fine Gael TD is facing her first big challenge since taking over as government chief whip

Sarah Hamill: Landlords and tenants could both be aggrieved by the government’s ‘first refusal’ plan

It is hard to fully tease out the constitutional issues which may arise from the announcement that tenants will get the first chance to buy their home from their landlord, but there could be trouble ahead

McGrath assessing small landlord tax breaks rejected by Donohoe last year

The now Minister for Public Expenditure rejected a range of proposals to stem the exodus of landlords from the market, just before the eviction ban last year

Lucinda Creighton: Capitulation to SF leaves government afraid to back sensible housing policy

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael should have a basic understanding of the need for landlords in the market; instead, they have tried to regulate them out of existence as they look over their shoulder at the opposition

Tenants facing eviction will have legal right to buy from their landlords

Landlords selling properties will have to first offer them to existing tenants and sell to them if they match an independent sale price valuation

Eviction ban to be lifted at the end of March as government ignores calls for extension

Opposition figures have said dropping the measure will lead to a rise in homelessness.

Eviction ban bill passes in Dáil after junior housing minister forgets to oppose in ‘rookie error’

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has also confirmed that the government will make a decision on whether it will extend the eviction ban before St Patrick’s Day

Sarah Hamill: Winter eviction ‘ban’ does little more than buy the government time

The problem with the rental market is not over-regulation but bad regulation, poorly enforced

Does Generation Rent finally have the politicians on its side?

As Fine Gael agrees to implement opposition policies such as an eviction ban and renter’s tax credit to avoid a winter homeless disaster, the political balance may be gradually shifting away from landlords to renters

Cost Of Living Crisis

Eviction ban comes into force until the end of March

The initiative will not apply to tenants who “wilfully” don’t pay their rent

Housing minister keeps ‘all options’ open on winter eviction ban

Darragh O’Brien says he still has concerns about the possible impact of a veto on property rights ‘which are constitutionally protected’

Derelict site levies of €33,600 owed on Prussia Street site where eviction took place

Dublin City Council say levies for 2020 and 2021 have not yet been paid