Re your article Irish Examiner, July 9 (‘No let-up in Defence Forces exodus, as 236 quit in five months’), I served in the Defence Forces from 1985 to 2017 (32 years). In 1994, the first of the new so-called contract soldiers were enlisted. Their terms of engagement gave these personnel poorer service entitlements than those
Green light for Dublin shopping centre demolition to make way for student beds An Bord Pleanála has approved the demolition of the Park Shopping Centre in Stoneybatter in Dublin to make way for a major residential development, including almost 600 student bed spaces as well as a new district shopping centre. The Planner Temporary generator
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FINANCE Minister Paschal Donohoe is to consider a new vacant property tax after he obtains firm data on how many homes across the State are empty and the reasons why. r Donohoe confirmed today that the forthcoming Local Property Tax revaluation will see homeowners asked to declare to Revenue if their property is vacant and
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The Sacred Heart statue in Cathedral Lane. Source: The Journal “IT’S FALLING TO bits.” Prospective TDs find out quickly on the campaign trail that all politics is indeed local, often exceptionally so. When Sinn Féin’s Lynn Boylan was canvassing for votes at near St. Patrick’s Cathedral, one of the issues raised was a Sacred Heart
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The Chair of Clare County Council’s Housing Committee is calling on the Housing Minister to visit the county so as to properly grasp the crisis facing renters locally. Reacting to Darragh O’Brien’s comments that linking rent increases to inflation would be fairer than rent pressure zones, Shannon Councillor Gerry Flynn says this doesn’t provide protection
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The key reforms are: Rent Pressure Zone (RPZ) Extension All RPZs will be extended to the end of 2024. Rent Reviews The current cap of 4% on annual rent increases will be replaced and rents in RPZs will be restricted by inflation as recorded in the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) . This will
DUBLIN: Ireland will significantly reduce the maximum annual increase in residential rents allowed in designated “Rent Pressure Zones”, the government announced on Thursday in a move to tackle surging housing costs. Landlords in the designated zones, which cover many of Ireland’s urban areas under 2016 legislation, are currently limited to annual rent increases of 4%.
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Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien has announced the rent pressure zone (RPZ) scheme is to be totally reformed, the current cap of 4% on rent increases in Rent Pressure Zones will be scrapped and any rent increase will now be made in line with the nation’s inflation rate. Andrea spoke to renters and landlords to get their reaction
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If you are a landlord or a renter in a rent pressure zone changes are coming your way. The housing minister has today announced that the 4% maximum rent increase per annum in these areas is being reformed. Joining us on the show was Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien to discuss
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File photo of Residential Tenancies Board. Lasma Rasimes has little or no money left after she pays her rent and electricity bill. The former shop worker, who suffers from serious back pain so can’t work, gets €220 a week on an invalidity pension – so, €880 most months. She lives in a privately owned apartment,