New proposals designed to strengthen renters' rights don't do enough to stop evictions into homelessness, according to housing charity Threshold.

Landlords are seeking extensive amounts of personal information, including PPS numbers, photo ID, and access to would-be renters’ social media accounts before they can view a potential rental property.

More than half of all available rental properties in Dublin are being listed as short-term tourist lets — because landlords are aiming to rent them to tourists.

The Irish Property Owners Association (IPOA), the national representative body for landlords welcomes, with cautious optimism, the Minister for Housing’s proposed action to allow bedsit accommodation once again.

Update - 10.07am: Housing charity Threshold has called on the housing minister to start the deposit protection scheme.

Private landlords’ group the Irish Property Owners Association (IPOA) has been reprimanded by the competition regulator over a press release and a meeting where it discussed levying new charges for tenants in response to government plans for rent controls.

The Irish Property Owners Association (IPOA) says it is considering bringing in a raft of new charges in response to the Government's rent caps.

Tax breaks allowing landlords to offset the cost of paying local property taxes against what they owe Revenue are being considered as part of measures for next week’s budget.

Extended tax relief measures for landlords are being considered as part of next month’s budget in a bid to stop numbers leaving the sector.

A war of words has broken out between landlords and John Halligan, with the minister insisting the “bastards” should be jailed and saying that a “sizeable minority” of them are making money out of people’s misfortunes.

Prisoner officers have called for better protective equipment like batons and pepper spray after a violent assault in Midlands prison.

New legislation introduced in a piecemeal manner is killing investment in the private rental sector. 

Landlords are calling on the next government to incentivise the return of thousands of properties abandoned because of their owners’ inability to refurbish to the required standards.

The Labour Party has confirmed that proposals by Environment Minister Alan Kelly for rent controls to be linked to the rate of inflation are unlikely to be introduced by the Government.

Stephen Faughnan of the Irish Property Owners Association (IPOA), tells us “71% of landlords have insufficient income from their rental property to cover the mortgage repayment. This is an appalling statistic and unsustainable”. (Irish Examiner, Letters, August 19)

A meeting of members of the Irish Property Owners Association (IPOA) in Cork in recent days drew a capacity attendance and denounced a number of government measures. We heard that rent control or certainty cannot be reintroduced in Ireland as a viable solution to the housing situation.

At a meeting in Wynne’s Hotel this week, 300 Irish Property Owners’ Association (IPOA) members vented their fury at the proposed introduction of rent control/certainty by the Government.

Prison officers are to raise concerns over safety with the Minister for Justice after three officers were injured in two separate incidents in the Midlands Prison yesterday.

The Government has been urged to incentivise tenants to move to rural areas or lift the blanket ban on bedsits instead of imposing de facto rent controls on properties.

Landlords are threatening to impose a water charge deposit on tenants, if the Government goes ahead with plans that would make the owner of a property liable for unpaid water bills.

The body representing residential landlords says it is "unbelievable, unacceptable, and unfair" that its members may be required to collect tenants’ outstanding water charges on behalf of Irish Water and has suggested the provision may be unconstitutional.

Members of the public who return blank application forms in protest against water charges will be processed as having registered with the utility, Irish Water has confirmed.

Irish Water is finalising measures to go after tenants who do not pay water charges amid growing confusion among landlords and renters about the new tariff.

An organisation of landlords has raised concern over a proposal by Housing Minister Jan O’Sullivan that a law be introduced to cap private rentals.

We at the Irish Property Owners Association (IPOA) have accused the Government of what we call “taxsault” — assault by taxation.

Powerful prison gangs and mischievous inmates could paralyse the Irish Prison Service by abusing new complaints procedures to be introduced in October, the Irish Prison Officers’ Association (IPOA) have claimed.

Why was Threshold featured in the Prime Time programme on the problems a minority of tenants face with an even tinier number of landlords who it is claimed do not live up to their responsibilities?

Forget squatter’s rights — it was squatter’s flight yesterday after it emerged that a man who won his claim to a property he had broken into 30 years ago had left the country.

SOCIALIST TDs said they would “stand to the very end” against a new property charge and but would not say if they were willing to go to jail over their boycott.

Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan has said landlords are responsible for payment of the €100 household charge for any properties they own.

People who rent their homes could be hit with the €100 household charge announced in last week's Budget, if the body representing landlords gets its way.

THE Irish Prison Officers’ Association (IPOA) is seeking an urgent meeting with Public Health Department after one of its officers contracted TB at a jail where there was a recent outbreak of the disease among inmates.

PROPERTY owners are “facing bankruptcy” following the Government’s decision to scrap Section 23 relief and have said they will challenge the legality of the decision.

The Government's decision to abolish Section 23 property reliefs in the Budget is to be challenged.

There are strong denials that overcrowding was to blame for a riot at Mountjoy jail which saw three prison officers injured.

THE Irish Prison Officers’ Association (IPOA) have sought a meeting with prison management at Mountjoy following an attack on one of its members which left him with 20 stitches to his face.

THE Government is to review aspects of renting laws after it emerged some landlords were registering their tenants as the equivalent of hotel guests.

Prison officers are due to meet management at Mountjoy Prison this afternoon to discuss the confrontation between inmates and staff over the weekend.

Prison officers say overcrowding is one of the main contributory factors leading to tension in the country's prisons.