Loopholes for Landlords

The regulations provide that in any case where the rent has been increased since March 31 1972 the tenant or someone on his behalf may apply to the rent review authority, for a determination as to whether the increase has been justified. But the landlord gets over this by evicting the old tenant and putting the rent up for the new tenant who has no way of checking what the old rent was.

There have been only 208 appeals to the authority since they were introduced and most of them have been instigated by members of TPA. Of those appeals lodged, many have been rejected, there have been no prosecutions and only 50 have been determined"