Rory Hearne
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352 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 24 Aug
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If the average rent, right, of Dublin, 2,600, that equates to 31,200 a year.
That is a, when we talked earlier, or it was spoken earlier in terms of, you know, rents and how hard it is, you're talking about taking up to 80, 90% of a nurse's salary
that's their entire take-home pay to try and cover that rent these rents are not sustainable and there was a change the government made which was to remove the inter-tenancy rent cap and not to get over complicated about this but it's essentially when the tenant leaves that in it before there was a two percent rent cap in place one of the key measures that the government made in their rental laws was removing that and known alliance sets that out that that is behind
this rent increase we argued why did the government have to do that why did it have to rents are so high already that investors are investing people are building that's very clear but what this government did was essentially in response to the lobbying by the institutional investor said we're going to allow it go even higher higher because they're telling us they want even higher rents
And this is not a sustainable type of housing.
3,400 is what the rent has been charged in apartments in Poolbeg.
It feels to me like we're back in the Celtic Tiger period.
These are unsustainable rents, unsustainable house prices.
The alternative is clear.
The state builds affordable housing and it uses other mechanisms to leverage private finance that will deliver affordable rentals.
But Niall, this is delusional.
No, no, the reality, Niall, is 7,000 households given notices to quit.
You have done nothing for the quarter of a million.
You see, this is complete spin.
And this is why it's so frustrating.
about your government.
You spin this mistruth that you've given this greatest security of tenure ever.
All existing tenants, quarter of a million of them, got no new security of tenure.
They're as exposed today as they were before your measures to no-fault evictions.
And that is why we're seeing a continued rise in evictions.
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