McEntee: Sex-for-rent practice not covered by legislation

Justice Minister Helen McEntee said landlords 'seeking to use their position to prey on vulnerable people is completely acceptable, cannot be tolerated and is an appalling abuse of power by people with unscrupulous morals'. Picture: Colin  Keegan/ Collins Dublin

The Justice Minister has told the Dáil there is no legislation currently in place to deal with the practice of landlords offering sex-for-rent arrangements.

The chairman of the Oireachtas committee on housing Steven Matthews raised the matter with Helen McEntee on Thursday morning in the Dáil, following an investigation by the Irish Examiner.