Yesterday on Newstalk’s Breakfast show Shane Coleman spoke to Karl Deeter of Irish Mortgage Brokers about rent controls and what effects they may have, it is also becoming known as ‘rent certainty’ which is a more politically correct version of the same expression.

Germans have struggled to make this workable, as have the French, these markets are also heralded as the markets we should aim to replicate, but why would we want their problems when we have problems of our own already?