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No. 11 of 2026

Residential Tenancies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2026

Public bill · Government · Presented

The measures would overhaul private renting by replacing rent pressure zones with a national rent cap, generally linking annual increases to inflation with a 2% ceiling, while allowing market rent to be reset in limited cases and after set periods in longer tenancies. It would create minimum-duration tenancies with stronger limits on when landlords can end them, require clearer notice to tenants and the RTB, and publish more rent and property details in the tenancy register so rents are more transparent. It would also let the RTB share data with tax, social protection and energy bodies, tighten access to the Accommodation Recognition Payment, and tidy the planning rules for short-term lets.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to require the provision of certain information to a tenant and the Residential Tenancies Board on the commencement of a residential tenancy; to oblige tenants to allow access to a dwelling for purposes connected with an intended transfer of the dwelling; to make provision in relation to the setting of rents under residential tenancies; to provide for, and limit, the circumstances in which landlords can terminate certain tenancies of dwellings, including during and at the end of a tenancy of minimum duration; to provide for the frequency with which rent reviews may occur; to require certain information to be included in the residential tenancies register and the published register; to provide for the sharing of certain information by the Residential Tenancies Board with the Minister for Social Protection, the Revenue Commissioners and Sustainable Energy Ireland - the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland; to repeal certain provisions of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004; for those purposes to amend that Act; to provide for certain changes in relation to the eligibility for financial contributions under the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022; for those purposes to amend that Act; to amend provision in relation to short term letting constituting material change in use requiring development consent; for that purpose to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 and the Planning and Development Act 2024; and to provide for related matters.

Last updated 27 February 2026

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  • Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage Primary
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