Ireland badly needs a new centre-right party - Here's my proposal

And for the more than 95% of ordinary, law-abiding tenants who have done nothing to actually require eviction? The tenants who keep to the terms of the lease, pay their rent on time?

They have no protection. "Sorry, your 1-year lease is up, I'm not renewing it. Need the house for a family member." No long-term leases, no rent protection, no security of tenure. This has been pointed out before on this thread, but you seem to keep missing it, and only talk about the tiny percentage of problem tenants.

Repetition does not make a fact.

It's a GOOD thing that there's a process to be followed before landlords can just chuck people onto the street. It goes some way to stopping the more nastier side of that "profession" getting rid of people willy nilly, even though that option is open to them every 12 months. That some of them might have to deal with some difficult tenants will get no tears from me because everything else is geared toward the landlord and tenants are at the mercy of them on a yearly basis.

Your crying for landlords will get no truck from the vast majority of people in this I can assure you of that.

We need in this country a truly proper renting system that's far more stringently regulated and with much better checks and balances. But like our arse of housing system in general, there is no political will to tackle it so it just festers, with out of control rents and people allowed to hock out shit at exploitative cost. Dog boxes with a mattress on the floor can be passed off as a room for rent. That's the reality of the renting sector in Ireland for some people. Some of the viewing on DAFT.ie makes for a chilling reminder at just what it is our renters have to look forward to.

But just because landlords have to go through an actual process they can evict tenants doesn't mean it's a tenants market or that tenants rights, in general, are "robust".

The vast majority of leases over here are 12 months. That essentially means that tenants are subject to living in the a given place for a year at a time. It's rare that tenants here get leases over that time period written into contacts.

Part 4 tenancy is meaningless in reality and there's easy loopholes. All a landlord has to say is that they're selling up or one of their children needs the property.

There's a couple who lived across the road from us that had to move out a couple of weeks ago. The landlord said he was selling and they had no choice. The property is back up for rent now.

only so much shop workers etc required and when automation comes they will be the most and first effected..

we tried classist cleansing and social housing only estates already, we aren't going back there again.

mixed estates are the only option on the table.

the tds aren't woke, but rather realise the reality that the country is a modern country where there is little demand for a type of politics that has been proven to fail again and again.

that is why the op's political party will only ever be another boards fantasy party.

So EOTR, should we keep going with the existing politik?

Demonstrably not true, and debunked already in this thread. E.g., the news report on over 50% of property owners registering for LPT by the deadline, but that figure falling to a mere 14% for landlords who own 10 or more properties.