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Irish Independent
10 hours ago
- Irish Independent
Taoiseach accuses Mary Lou McDonald of ‘clichéd bingo announcements' as SF leader hits out at rental plan
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has accused Mary Lou McDonald of "clichéd bingo announcements" on the new rental rules. She had engaged in "bluff and bluster" on Morning Ireland this morning, the Fianna Fáil leader said, namechecking "vulture" and "cuckoo" funds, and saying the Government should "let builders build". It was an incredibly detailed policy, Mr Martin said, adding that Sinn Féin itself had been meeting developers and investors to discuss ways of encouraging private interests into the housing market. He said Eoin Ó Broin, the party's spokesman on housing, had done so "in his attempt to be super-cerebral on these issues." However, Mr Martin did not answer Ms McDonald's questions about what research had gone into the policy package before it was announced. She also called for clarification on the six-year rule governing the resetting of rents, and whether it applied to "all landlords" as had been stated in a press release from the Department of Housing - which has since been changed. Ms McDonald said he was asking on behalf of renters "confused by your own proposal and unclear as to what you're saying." She added, however: 'There is one thing that is clear. Your plan will push up rents even further. It's only a question of when renters will be hit. "You'll allow landlords themselves to set a market rate for rent after March 1, 2006, and throughout the course of next year, tens of thousands of renters will face higher rents. "Some will pay full market rent at the start of their tenancy, and all will face big hikes at the end. Tenants entering new-build properties will be hit with market level rent on day one, and with rent increases tied to inflation thereafter, they're set to see their rent rise sharply.' Fianna Fáil "rolls the dice on housing once again," she said, "with no guarantee that it will lead to any significant increase in supply. "The Housing Agency is very clear on that score. Even in the most optimistic of scenarios, your plan will see high-end apartments in exclusive pockets of Dublin charging eye-watering rent. "In the rest of Dublin, and in every other county, there will be no extra supply, but there will be much higher rents." Reflecting an Irish Independent story this morning, Ms McDonald said: "There's a very real danger that your plan will actually tighten supply - as landlords now delay putting properties back on the market in order to charge a higher rent from next March." The Taoiseach said: "Existing tenants will stay and be capped at 2pc [ increase per year]. That is clear. "Any new tenancies after March 2026 will be capped by the CPI [the Consumer Price Index, meaning inflation]. That is also very clear. "But you have sought to sow confusion, because, of course, you condemned this before you even saw the detail of it. "During the last couple of months, you declared that RPZs would be eliminated. You didn't expect this package of measures." He added: "I listened to you on Morning Ireland [on RTE Radio 1] and it was all bluff and bluster. "You're back to the vulture funds. go back a few weeks and just replay what Deputy Eoin Ó Broin said on Virgin TV - he acknowledged and recognised a role for institutional funds in the Irish market. "So who do I believe here? You just call it vulture funds because it plays well, but it's just clichéd bingo announcements. "That's all you're adding. I heard you this morning, and it's just bluff and bluster." In contrast, the changes announced by Government - with legislation to be brought in within the next fortnight - "will be a huge jump forward in providing long-term stability." He said Threshold, the renters' representative organisation, had welcomed the national extension of Rent Pressure Zones.
RTÉ News
10 hours ago
- RTÉ News
McDonald brands Govt's new policy on rents a 'shambles'
The Government's new policy on rents has been branded a "shambles" by Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald. The plans, announced by Minister for Housing James Browne after the plans were green-lit by the Cabinet, mean that Rent Pressure Zones are to be retained for existing tenancies with rents linked to inflation. . Landlords are to be categorised under a new system of national rent control, with large landlords defined as people who own four properties or more. Small landlords are those with three or fewer properties. The changes are due to come into effect from 1 March next year. Ms McDonald accused Taoiseach Micheál Martin of spreading confusion about the changes. "This is about making renters carry the can for your failures on housing," she said. Mr Martin said this was a balanced set of measures to protect tenants and to dramatically increase the supply of housing. He accused Sinn Féin of engaging in bluff and bluster and bingo-style, clichéd announcements. Mr Martin said that Sinn Féin has no solutions to increase housing supply. Meanwhile, Social Democrats TD Cian O'Callaghan said the Government will use tenants as "sacrificial lambs" in its planned "dystopian future for renters". He also accused Mr Martin of delivering "contradictory messages", "sowing confusion" and making an "absolute shambles" of its housing policy. The deputy noted that "new tenancies after March 2026 will be capped at CPI", but asked if there would be "a reset every six years". He expressed confusion as to what the status of the reset is, given that Mr Martin had not mentioned it in an earlier response. Deputy O'Callaghan accused the Minister for Housing James Browne, of gambling with renters' futures, and of having incentivised landlords to "jack up rents substantially". "All existing tenants will not have their rents increased beyond 2%," Mr Martin said in response, and repeated the comment in his second response to the deputy. "Will you please now listen," he said. "After March 2026, rent on new-builds will be subject to a cap of the CPI," Mr Martin said. Earlier, Ms McDonald said the reforms mean that rents will increase for everyone amid a serious cost of living crisis. Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Ms McDonald said the great mystery is why the extension of the rent pressure zones is not happening immediately. "Rents will increase for everybody at some stage, more immediately for some renters, in a more staggered way for others," she said. She added: "I told the Taoiseach yesterday that we are willing to sit late and do what needs to be done in order to make sure this measure is implemented as soon as possible." A lot of the details about the new measures remain unclear, she said, adding that there was a real "back of the envelope" to it. "They couldn't give me an answer in respect of short-term renters and people on fixed-term leases, like I'm thinking of, for example, students, many of whom rent term to term, year to year." Ms McDonald said the measures appeared to be, to her, a formula to "take the shackles off big funds who are already snapping up homes from under the noses of first-time buyers." "This is a strategy and a formula for higher rents, for greater hardship, for greater insecurity, and it is not the way to go," she said.
Irish Examiner
a day ago
- Irish Examiner
Deadly Russian drone and missile attack ‘one of the biggest' in Ukraine war
At least two people were killed and 13 others were injured after Russia sent waves of drones and missiles in an attack on two Ukrainian cities, officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the attack on Kyiv 'one of the biggest' in the war that has raged for over three years. He said that Moscow's forces had fired more than 315 drones, mostly Shaheds, and seven missiles at Ukraine overnight. 'Russian missile and Shahed strikes are louder than the efforts of the United States and others around the world to force Russia into peace,' Mr Zelensky wrote, as he urged 'concrete action' from the US and Europe in response to the attack. Russian missile and Shahed strikes drown out the efforts of the United States and others around the world to force Russia into peace. For yet another night, instead of a ceasefire, there were massive strikes with Shahed drones, cruise and ballistic missiles. Today was one of the… — Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) June 10, 2025 A maternity hospital and residential buildings in the centre of the southern port city of Odesa were also damaged in the attack, regional head Oleh Kiper said. Two people were killed and nine injured in the city, according to a statement from the regional prosecutor's office. Four people were injured in the attack on the capital, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. Associated Press journalists heard explosions and the buzzing of drones around the city for hours. The fresh attacks came a day after Moscow launched almost 500 drones at Ukraine in the biggest overnight drone bombardment in the three-year war. Ukrainian and Western officials have been anticipating a Russian response to Ukraine's audacious June 1 drone attack on distant Russian air bases. The search is continuing for survivors (Ukrainian Emergency Services via AP) Russia has been launching a record-breaking number of drones and missiles targeting Ukraine while the two countries continue to swap prisoners of war, the only tangible outcome of recent direct peace talks held in Istanbul on June 2. Both sides traded memoranda during the meeting setting out conditions for a potential ceasefire in the more than three-year-old war – but the inclusion of clauses that both sides see as non-starters make any quick deal unlikely. A ceasefire, long sought by Kyiv, remains elusive. In Kyiv, fires broke out in at least four districts after debris from shot down drones fell on the roofs of residential buildings and warehouses, according to the Kyiv City Military Administration. The Russian attack sparked 19 fires across Ukraine, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko wrote on Telegram. 'Russia must answer for every crime it commits. Until there is justice, there will be no security. For Ukraine. And for the world,' he said. The death tolls from previous Russian strikes also continued to rise on Tuesday. In Kharkiv, rescuers found the body of a person trapped under the rubble of a building that was hit in a drone-and-missile attack Saturday, city mayor Ihor Terekhov wrote on Telegram. The attack was one of the largest in the conflict, the Ukrainian leader said (AP) The discovery brings the number of casualties to five, with five more people potentially still trapped under the debris, Terekhov said. Meanwhile, in the northern city of Sumy, a 17-year-old boy died in the hospital on Tuesday morning after being injured in a Russian strike on June 3, acting mayor Artem Kobzar wrote on Telegram. It brings the number killed in the attack to six. Elsewhere, the Russian defence ministry reported downing 102 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions and Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula Moscow illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014. The drones were downed both over regions on the border with Ukraine and deeper inside Russia, including central Moscow and Leningrad regions, according to the statement. Because of the drone attack, flights were temporarily restricted in and out of multiple airports across Russia, including all four airports in Moscow and the Pulkovo airport in St Petersburg, the country's second largest city.
