Coalition enters uncharted waters with back-garden bid to boost rental market supply
‘We want to free-up the planning system from an overconcentration on smaller developments,’
says Taoiseach Micheál Martin
“Walked up the hill too soon.” This was the terse rebuke from a Fianna Fáil official after the Sunday Independent revealed last month that homeowners were in line to earn up to €14,000 tax-free by renting out newly built modular units in their back gardens.
What followed was days of griping from both sides of the coalition aisle that nothing had been set in stone, despite senior sources in both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael confirming the expansion of the Rent-a-Room scheme had already been agreed.
