Rent cap exclusion for half of Cork town

Thousands of homes in one of the country’s largest commuter towns have been excluded from the latest rent-cap zone measures, because of electoral boundary anomalies.

The affected area in Carrigaline, Co Cork, is in Housing Minister Simon Coveney’s own constituency, where half of the town is now classified as a rent-pressure zone (RPZ), and half is not.

Amid fears that the anomaly could further distort the rental market locally, Sinn Féin TD, Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire, led calls last night for new regulations to bring the excluded areas of the town into the new RPZ.