Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy has confirmed a large survey of renters will go ahead next year including questions about whether tenants have experienced sexual harassment from landlords.

The best dramas always have a plot twist at the end.

Irish Water expects the notice to be in place for a number of days after heavy rain affected water quality at the Leixlip Treatment Plant.

Several alarms at the Leixlip Water plant “were not responded to”, leading to the country's largest-ever boil water notice last month, TDs will be told tomorrow.

It comes after Fine Gael members in her Dún Laoghaire constituency backed a motion calling on the Fine Gael Executive Council to "urgently review" the ticket for the next election

Fine Gael has promoted TD Noel Rock to replace Maria Bailey as Chair of the Oireachtas Housing Committee.

HOW much is a pound of flesh worth these days? A different price to different people, obviously, depending on whose flesh is under discussion. But in the case of Maria Bailey it would appear no price is too high when it comes to the ongoing public flailing of the Fine Gael TD.

Fine Gael is deeply divided over calls for Fine Gael TD Maria Bailey to stand down from the party over the ‘swing-gate’ controversy.

Fine Gael TD Maria Bailey has been removed as Chairperson of the Oireachtas Housing Committee following an internal inquiry into her accident on a swing at a Dublin hotel.

Fine Gael TD Maria Bailey could have her role as chair of the Housing Committee removed this week over her swing-case controversy.

Ireland's rate of social housing building is at risk if the status of the organisations responsible is not changed.

Leo Varadkar has told a private meeting of Fine Gael TDs that an internal review to “establish the facts” in the Maria Bailey saga will take two weeks.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has told a private meeting of Fine Gael TDs that an internal review to “establish the facts” in the Maria Bailey saga will take two weeks.

In a statement this evening Fine Gael announced that in relation to the civil case which has been withdrawn by Ms Bailey it would undertake an internal review.

The Housing Minister says websites should not be allowed to advertise sub-standard accommodation.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has swung into the Maria Bailey controversy by backing criticism of the TD by Business Minister Heather Humphreys about personal responsibility.

Penalising Maria Bailey over the “swing-gate” scandal will be near impossible, despite widespread calls within Fine Gael for her to be sanctioned.

Maria Bailey (43) is a first-time TD, who was elected on the seventh count in 2016 as one of three Fine Gael TDs in the Dun Laoghaire constituency.

From July 1, potential rental homes will no longer be available short-term, except with planning permission and even then rarely, says Eoin Ó Broin

The average rent in Ireland now stands at €1,060 a month, according to data drawn from all new tenancy agreements registered with the Residential Tenancies Board.

Bringing homes built since 2013 under the Local Property Tax (LPT) will raise more than €10m a year in the Dublin area alone, TDs have been told.

It’s becoming a case of the emperor with no clothes for Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy.

A pipeline drawing water from the Shannon is the only solution to the threat of drought and taps running dry in the east of Ireland, the head of Irish Water has warned.

Cork City Council is among six local authorities which have failed to appoint a vacant homes officer six months after being ordered to do so.

The Government should compensate people who bought Celtic Tiger homes which have been found to have significant defects, an Oireachtas committee has recommended.

The Oireachtas Housing Committee has recommended making AirBnB register all its users with local councils.

Builders who sell new homes at affordable rates should pay reduced Vat, Fianna Fáil has suggested in the Dáil.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions is calling on the Government to declare a housing emergency.

Credit unions could be in the position to fund social housing projects through approved bodies by next year.

Latest: Airbnb has described as tragic claims that Irish families are being put out of their homes so landlords can make more money on short-term lettings.

Housing Minister Simon Coveney has denied that he is delaying a proposed referendum on the public ownership of the water system.

First-time buyers are to get up to €10,000 in a tax rebate as part of Government plans to reheat the property market.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has laid the blame at local authorities for the delay in building social houses in the Dáil today.

Housing Minister Simon Coveney has insisted his action plan for housing will be ready within 100 days, saying he is working “night and day” to address the emergency.

Housing minister Simon Coveney has been severely criticised after he admitted he will miss his own deadline for launching the Government’s much-feted Action Plan for Housing, because of people “heading off” on summer holidays.

Accusations that Finance Minister Michael Noonan is a “vulture-fund lover” sparked a major row at the Oireachtas Housing Committee yesterday.

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Developers who are hoarding their land for higher profits rather than building houses should have those lands seized by the State, members of the Oireachtas Housing Committee have said.

The State’s bad bank, Nama, has claimed that it cannot solely solve the housing crisis, despite stiff criticism of its policies.

Local authorities are set to significantly miss their targets for spending on building social houses, despite the country’s escalating housing crisis.

A long-time Fine Gael TD says he could not afford to buy a house if he was entering the property market for the first time due to strict Central Bank mortgage rules to prevent another crash.