We all know that rent controls are having little impact on tapering the escalation in rents; recent figures from the Residential Tenancies Board, which track actual rents as opposed to asking rents, shows that the cost of renting a property in Dublin jumped by more than 7 per cent in the first quarter of this year alone. And this despite the fact that rents are supposed to be limited to annual hikes of 2 per cent.

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