{"id":61320,"date":"2025-09-13T08:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/61320\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T08:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:55:08","slug":"huge-rents-increases-in-donegal-are-not-normal-maclochlainn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/61320\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge rents increases in Donegal are \u2018not normal\u2019 &#8211; MacLochlainn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Donegal Sinn F\u00e9in TD, P\u00e1draig MacLochlainn, has said average rents of almost \u20ac1,100 per month in Donegal are \u2018not normal\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Deputy MacLochlainn was responding to the latest figures published by the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB), which show that renters in new tenancies in Donegal are now paying almost \u20ac2,000 more than last year, an increase of almost 15% compared to a year ago. This, he said, is the highest increase in rents of any county across the State.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy MacLochlainn said that it \u2018does not have to be this way\u2019 and urged the government to listen to Sinn F\u00e9in, and cut rents and ban increases for three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn average rent of \u20ac1100 in Donegal is not normal. Many families pay much more than this every month,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRents have doubled over recent years in our county but wages for the average worker have certainly not doubled so this should not be allowed to happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe latest RTB figures show that rents for new tenants in Donegal rose by 14.8 % in the last 12 months. This means that renters in Donegal are now paying almost \u20ac2,000 more a year in rent because of the profound failures of Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael. It\u2019s a rip-off\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy MacLochlainn claimed Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael are making life harder for renters. \u201cHow are regular working people expected to afford these rents? How are they supposed to save for a deposit to buy a home,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t have to be this way. This can be sorted. We need to cut rents and ban increases for three years.\u00a0 We need to give young people a chance.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Huge rents increases in Donegal are \u2018not normal\u2019 \u2013 MacLochlainn was last modified:  September 12th, 2025 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donegal Sinn F\u00e9in TD, P\u00e1draig MacLochlainn, has said average rents of almost \u20ac1,100 per month in Donegal are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,669,43623,18,19,17,43624],"class_list":{"0":"post-61320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-donegal-news","10":"tag-donegal-rent-prices","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-padraig-maclochlainn"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}