‘Rents landlord TDs charge should be listed on register’, says Cork TD

A national register detailing how much landlord TDs rent out properties for would ensure transparency and prevent politicians using their position to ramp up rental prices.

Solidarity-People Before Profit TD, Mick Barry, called for legislative change, after the latest Dáil declarations-of-interest report revealed that at least 30 of the Dáil’s 158 TDs are also landlords.

As reported in yesterday’s Irish Examiner, at the end of last year one-in-five of Ireland’s TDs officially said they were leasing properties on the rental market, including some who were renting more than a dozen homes nationwide.