Residential Tenancies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2026

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Number 3 of 2026

Residential Tenancies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2026

CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1. Short title, commencement, collective citations and construction

2. Repeals

PART 2

Amendment of Residential Tenancies Act 2004

3. Definition

4. Amendment of section 4(1) of Principal Act

5. Amendment of section 6(1) of Principal Act

6. Amendment of section 12(1) of Principal Act

7. Amendment of section 16 of Principal Act

8. Amendment of section 19 of Principal Act

9. Application of section 20 (frequency with which rent reviews may occur)

10. Amendment of section 22 of Principal Act

11. Amendment of section 24(1) of Principal Act

12. Amendment of section 34 of Principal Act

13. Amendment of section 35 of Principal Act

14. Further restriction on termination of certain tenancies by certain landlords

15. Amendment of section 62 of Principal Act

16. Amendment of section 127 of Principal Act

17. Amendment of section 128 of Principal Act

18. Amendment of section 132 of Principal Act

19. Amendment of section 136(1) of Principal Act

20. Amendment of section 146 of Principal Act

21. Disclosure of certain information to Revenue Commissioners

22. Disclosure of information by Revenue Commissioners to Board

23. Amendment of section 151(1) of Principal Act

24. Amendment of Schedule 2 to Principal Act

PART 3

Amendment of Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) ACT 2022

25. Definition (Part 3)

26. Amendment of section 4(1) of Act of 2022

27. Amendment of section 6 of Act of 2022

28. Amendment of section 7(3) of Act of 2022

29. Application

PART 4

Amendment of Planning and Development Acts

30. Amendment of section 3A of Planning and Development Act 2000

31. Amendments of Planning and Development Act 2024

Acts Referred to

Adoption Acts 2010 to 2015

Building Control Act 1990 (No. 3)

Building Control Act 2007 (No. 21)

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (No. 19)

Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 (No. 24)

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Act 2011 (No. 21)

Companies Act 2014 (No. 38)

Local Government Act 2001 (No. 37)

Personal Insolvency Act 2012 (No. 44)

Planning and Development Act 2000 (No. 30)

Planning and Development Act 2024 (No. 34)

Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2025

Planning and Development Acts 2024 and 2025

Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022 (No. 15)

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2021 (No. 39)

Residential Tenancies Act 2004 (No. 27)

Residential Tenancies Acts 2004 to 2025

Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act 1993 (No. 27)

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (No. 26)

Sustainable Energy Act 2002 (No. 2)

Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (No. 39)

Number 3 of 2026

RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2026

An Act to require the provision of certain information to a tenant and the Residential Tenancies Board on the commencement of a residential tenancy; to oblige tenants to allow access to a dwelling for purposes connected with an intended transfer of the dwelling; to make provision in relation to the setting of rents under residential tenancies; to provide for, and limit, the circumstances in which landlords can terminate certain tenancies of dwellings, including during and at the end of a tenancy of minimum duration; to provide for the frequency with which rent reviews may occur; to require certain information to be included in the residential tenancies register and the published register; to provide for the sharing of certain information by the Residential Tenancies Board with the Minister for Social Protection, the Revenue Commissioners and Sustainable Energy Ireland - the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland; to repeal certain provisions of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 ; for those purposes to amend that Act; to provide for certain changes in relation to the eligibility for financial contributions under the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 ; for those purposes to amend that Act; to amend provision in relation to short term letting constituting material change in use requiring development consent; for that purpose to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 and the Planning and Development Act 2024 ; and to provide for related matters.

[24th February, 2026]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: