Sex-for-rent law will not end practice, former TD warns

Ruth Coppinger: 'It looks like there is some sort of progressive agenda being moved on but the reality is that it is very easy to draft a law on this but it is very unlikely to be of any use to vulnerable tenants.' Picture: Stephen Collins/Collins 

Legislation banning sex-for-rent demands by landlords will not end the practice, according to a former TD who raised the issue in the Dáil in 2019.

Former Solidarity TD Ruth Coppinger was contacted in September 2019 by a tenant who had been offered a sex-for-rent arrangement by her landlord when she wanted to move out because of an increase in rent.