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Residential Tenancies (Illegal Evictions) (Amendment) Bill 2024
- Sponsor
- Eoin Ó Broin · Sinn Féin
- Introduced
- 9 May 2024
- Last updated
- 14 Nov 2024
What this bill does AI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Creates criminal offence of forcibly ending a tenancy; gardaí can arrest without warrant those suspected of committing it.
- Allows Residential Tenancies Board to award exemplary damages up to €40,000 where illegal eviction is found to have occurred.
- Requires Property Services Regulatory Authority, Revenue Commissioners and landlord agents to share tenant/landlord identity data with the Board for enforcement purposes.
Stage timeline What do these stages mean?
- First Stage 33rd Dáil9 May 2024
Debates
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