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Irish internet users could be vulnerable after 1.2 billion password theft

An attack by Russian hackers has seen 1.2 billion passwords stolen.

THERE HAVE BEEN warnings for Irish internet users after a recent security breach that could have seen 1.2 billion passwords fall into the hands of Russian hackers.

It is thought that passwords and usernames from as many as 500,000 websites could have been compromised in what would be one of the biggest data breaches of all time. The information about the reported theft comes from US-based company Hold Security Ltd.

There have been some questions raised over the validity of the claim due to lack of information about the hacks provided by the company and the fact they have only been recently established.

The company has also taken the unusual action of charging users $120 to check if their information has been compromised.

The original statement on the company’s website from last week states:

In the latest development, Hold Security’s Deep Web Monitoring practice in conjunction with our Credential Integrity Services discovered what could be arguably the largest data breach known to date.”

The company’s claims have been given veracity through the backing of tech expert Brian Krebs. When speaking about Hold Security’s founder Alex Holden last week on his website, Krebs said:

“I’ve known Hold Security’s Founder Alex Holden for nearly seven years…  Alex is a talented and tireless researcher, as well as a forthright and honest guy.”

The threat has been identified by global security company Trend Micro as a serious issue. The company operate globally and have their European Operations Centre in Cork. The company have warned that the data of Irish users could be vulnerable to attacks by ‘cyber criminals’.

Speaking to TheJournal.ie, Trend Micro’s enterprise security director Simon Walsh noted  ”it seems strange [Hold Security Ltd] appeared all of a sudden” but that “we have to take it at face value”. He went on to say:

“If you are looking for stolen credentials, [underground sites] are the kinds of places where you would hang out… they provide a huge wealth of resources to anyone trying to do this kind of stuff. You don’t need to be a cyber criminal to do this kind of thing. You can buy anything you need.”

There is talk that some of the 500,000 companies could be Fortune 500 companies. If that was the case then it is totally possible that Irish people were hit. We use the internet as much as anyone else.

A report issued earlier this year by the Trend Micro entitled ‘Russian Underground Revisited’ looked at the particular threat of the Russian online black market.

The study found the Russian marketplace to be offer a number of illegal products, including stolen credit card credentials, fake documents including passports, services to sell web traffic and malware software that can be used to steal personal data.

On what customers can do to protect their safety, Harris said: “Use different passwords for different websites and use a password manager. Try and change passwords regularly.”

Related: Had a Paddy Power account in 2010? You need to read this

Also: Domino’s has four hours to pay ransom for customers’ passwords and favourite toppings

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    Mute Marcus Kittel
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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:14 PM

    Fianna Fáil say they are as out of touch with the electorate now as they were before the election … far more appropriate headline.

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    Mute Craic_a_tower
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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:17 PM

    @Marcus Kittel: fail to see how a legal opinion changes just because the public want it to change.

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    Mute shergar
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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:21 PM

    @Craic_a_tower: why let the proposing bill through then?

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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:24 PM

    @shergar: it was voted in they couldn’t stop it

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    Mute Keith Michael Gregg
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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:30 PM

    @Craic_a_tower: they could have by voting against it. They voted for it

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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:32 PM

    @Keith Michael Gregg: you really don’t understand do you?

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    Mute Vladimir Macro
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    Feb 27th 2020, 6:07 PM

    @Craic_a_tower: fail to see how interfering in a rental in one way is legal and another way, is unconstitutional.

    Better again decrease the annual max rent hikes in rent pressure zones from 4% to .01%. Bingo, we now effectively have a rent freeze

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    Mute Craic_a_tower
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    Feb 27th 2020, 6:27 PM

    @Vladimir Macro: rent pressure zones have to end legally. They just extended it by 1 year but have already been told they won’t be able to do it again due to the same legal restriction

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    Feb 27th 2020, 6:27 PM

    @Vladimir Macro: Or just declare the entire state a rent pressure zone and set the rate at 0.01%

    Regardless, all bets are off regarding property rights if its for the public good. The head of the law society made this point when he was advocating talking properties back from vulture funds for the pittance they paid

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    Mute Marcus Kittel
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    Feb 27th 2020, 7:36 PM

    @Craic_a_tower: is that why the rent pressure zones were “challenged so much in court”? It’s in effect the same thing, one just limiting it more than the other. I’d rather a court of law males a proper judgement than comments in the Journal or by landlord supporting FFG politicians, at least we have proper legal basis then regardless which way it falls.

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    Mute paul gurney
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    Feb 27th 2020, 8:25 PM

    @Marcus Kittel: or how about FF still haven’t a clue..

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    Mute Nuala Mc Namara
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    Feb 27th 2020, 9:59 PM

    @Craic_a_tower: ITs article 3/2/20:’Housing crisis:There is no constitutional block to rent freezes in Ireland’!

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    Mute Alan McDonald
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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:24 PM

    Investment Funds and corporate buying of residential property isnt in the constitution.

    How about starting with a rent freeze on corporate/fund bought property?

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    Mute Craic_a_tower
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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:27 PM

    @Alan McDonald: exact same legal issue. It is in our constitution because of what the British government did to citizens rights and their business interests. It is a dictatorship to remove citizens rights.

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    Mute CJ Stewart
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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:35 PM

    @Alan McDonald: protect the profit makers…at all costs…FFG

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    Mute Sean Callan
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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:50 PM

    @CJ Stewart:
    How many of newly elected TDs are LANDLORDS?

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    Mute Joe Mc
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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:55 PM

    @Craic_a_tower: your actually wrong there. Already we have rent caps and rent freeze in place through the rent pressure zones. It has exactly the same impact on property owners and constitutional rights are not infringed. In the constitution their is a tiny sub heading that says “in the national interest”. it applies to lots of areas including esm or cpo’s and many others.

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    Mute Craic_a_tower
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    Feb 27th 2020, 6:28 PM

    @Joe Mc: nope it isn’t RPZ has to end next year

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    Feb 27th 2020, 6:50 PM

    @Craic_a_tower: that’s where your wrong again. They are not ending next year. It’s an ongoing restriction that applies to zones and their is no end date. Your full of misinformation

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    Feb 27th 2020, 7:13 PM
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    Mute Cobh Rebel Tour Mccarthy
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    Feb 28th 2020, 11:49 AM

    @CJ Stewart: Leo and FG has said they are heading back into opposition to set them up as the pure centre right party. Why I don’t know because they had acted perfectly as a party of the right greedy landlord big business for the last nine years.

    On the other hand, FF, who would regard themselves as other that right of centre, appear to find themselves in a very confused place, because no matter how much of a fright they received in the recent election, they still just cant bring themselves to break from their old ways, and big-business/landlord developer and banker contacts. There can be no other reason for them fudging on the rent freeze issue -that they are not really up for changing!

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    Mute Con Stable
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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:26 PM

    Change the constitution…put it to the people in referendum?

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    Mute Craic_a_tower
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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:30 PM

    @Con Stable: Can we add a new item where people who make stupid comments are shot? If we are going to take rights away surely we can do it on a host if things. Begging is a constitutional right do we remove that too? Very popular it would be too

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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:44 PM

    @Craic_a_tower: it’s an “opinion” only. On every legal dispute in history there was a side arguing the opposite.

    Some legal advisor tells Ff what they want to hear and we have to take it as gospel.

    Whether or not it’s unconstitutional can be decided by the High Court. No one else.

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    Mute SC
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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:50 PM

    @Craic_a_tower: we hand land reform before and nobody is complaining about that 150 years later.

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    Mute jimmypnufc
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    Feb 27th 2020, 6:04 PM

    @Craic_a_tower: you wouldn’t be a landlord by any chance?

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    Feb 27th 2020, 6:29 PM

    @jimmypnufc: doesn’t matter what I am. What legal opinion are you claiming?

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    Feb 27th 2020, 9:09 PM

    @Craic_a_tower: Didn’t we have a rent freeze back in 2015, if I remember correctly.
    However I don’t remember all this talk of it being unconstitutional.

    Also the constitution protects “the national interest” above most cases.

    Wouldn’t the national interest in this case be solving the housing & homeless crisis, both which are national emergencies, amongst others.

    Unless we have the definition of national interest wrong & the national interest is protecting the “bottom line” above all else, which seems to be the case, especially since 2008

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    Feb 28th 2020, 11:01 AM

    @Shazam37:
    It’s the Supreme Court which decides if it’s consitutional or not, in 2 prevvious cases it deemed that freezing rents or lower was unconsitutional. The above article mentioned is very good and outlines what could happen and on the pros and cons on it

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    Mute Peter McGlynn
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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:27 PM

    They were same with the water charges. We’ll get rid of them and guarantee Irish ownership of Irish water. Then when elected did a U-turn.

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    Mute Cathal O Broin
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    Feb 28th 2020, 10:01 PM

    You don’t solve a supply problem by dictating that suppliers keep their prices fixed.

    You look at why measures to increase supply …

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    Mute Sean Dempsey
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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:37 PM

    How many landlords in FFG?

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    Feb 27th 2020, 7:02 PM

    @Sean Dempsey: about 25 less than the previous term. At this rate, there’ll be no landlords/ffg td’s in 20 years

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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:31 PM

    Isn’t it funny that any measure ever suggested that might ease the 1%s jackbook off ordinary folks necks always seems to be ‘unconstitutional’?

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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:36 PM

    @The Risen: maybe because morons keep suggesting the ideas……

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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:37 PM

    @The Risen: judging by the amount of time you spend commenting on the journal I imagine the only interaction you ever enjoy with the dastardly “1%” is when you collect the welfare payments their tax contributions provide. They’ve probably paid you enough for your idleness to afford your own pair of jackboots at this stage.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:42 PM

    @The Risen: the 1% referees to USA society not ours. Funny you don’t understand why the constitution is this way as a protection from government seizing property like the British did.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:46 PM

    @The Risen: Rent Freezes were deemed Unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in two previous cases. The Constitution hasn’t altered on that point since then. So what makes you think the Supreme Court would all of a sudden change their rulings?

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    Feb 27th 2020, 6:07 PM

    @Craic_a_tower: There is a provision in the constitution for limiting property rights if in the public good. You know this, right?

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    Mute Joe Mc
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    Feb 27th 2020, 6:29 PM

    @The Risen: yep. Compulsory purchase orders is one of them.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 6:31 PM

    @The Risen: on individual basis not on all property. It won’t get past Europe either SF are selling a pig in a poke

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    Feb 27th 2020, 7:01 PM

    @Craic_a_tower: Nope, there’s no such distinction. Now you’re just adding bits in to the constitution that don’t exist.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 7:27 PM

    @The Risen: if you believe that one statement in the constitution overrides all the other details fair enough. That is the claim by SF and maybe a judge will agree. Given our constitution basically is all about individual citizens rights I believe it would be hard to argue the whole view changes on one point. That is also going against case law that already decided on similar points. Make your claims but frame the correctly as it is which is a hope it can be legal. Then as I say you have to go against the EU and what is being said is different to actual rent controls but removal of rights. Basically it is opinion but I am not dismissing the argument I am pointing out how weak it is that you shouldn’t claim it is so definite when reality is it is wishful thinking.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:27 PM

    Ok let’s reduce all rent by 50%!

    Will that build the social housing we need?

    Will it bring more rental properties on to the market?

    The government is playing a binder in turning people against each other. There wouldn’t be high rents if the demand wasn’t high and its high because government after government failed to implement a building program, instead they tried to rely on the private sector which had failed.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:52 PM

    @Jim Buckley Barrett: who would have thought that effective social control could be exercised simply through manipulating the housing market. It was all so simple in the end

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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:38 PM

    According to this, one in four TDs are landlords. https://extra.ie/2019/12/07/news/politics/landlord-tds-housing-homeless
    It hasn’t been updated since the election, but I’d bet there’s still a sizeable contingent among the current crop.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:34 PM

    Here we go, another clatter of years with the same BUllst…I don’t think I can stick it..MM and LV sicken me, even their voices erk me..

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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:42 PM

    Darragh O’Brien, you were contacted about the Swords apartments/fire wall problems. Why haven’t you raised THAT in the Dáil? Why are no media covering it?

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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:36 PM

    Change the constitution: put it to the people in referendum and let’s see how supportive of the welfare of the people versus property owners Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are and for that matter Sinn Féin too.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:47 PM

    @Con Stable: There’s no need. This is just an opinion. Pass the law. Someone will challenge it – possibly – and it’ll take two years to hear it by which time it may no longer be necessary.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 6:11 PM

    @Shazam37: or the President and Council of State can refer it directly to the Supreme Court

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    Feb 28th 2020, 9:54 PM

    @Con Stable: Rent freezes are great for those currently renting but totally backfire on those looking for places to rent since it reduces the incentive for new rental.

    The incentive for landlords to provide places for renting is further reduced since they’ll start earning less money because of inflation.

    If house prices rise but rents are fixed, it’ll also encourage them to sell up.

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    Mute CJ Stewart
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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:42 PM

    Ever get the feeling politics is finished in Ireland? Let’s face it…what’s the F,in point if these two shower of self interested, profit protecting, power hungry B’s cover and soe up every future election like this…it’s making a mockery out of the electorate, a mockery out of democracy, and a mockery out of Ireland..Angry, is not sufficient to describe how many people feel..

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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:54 PM

    @CJ Stewart:

    “Ever get the feeling politics is finished in Ireland?“ No. Of course not.

    “what’s the F,in point if these two shower of self interested, profit protecting, power hungry B’s cover and soe up every future election like this”

    But they didn’t. They’ve haemorrhaged their vote share over the last 30 years from 80% of the vote to less than 50. And falling further. They haven’t “shored” anything up. They’re in free fall.

    “it’s making a mockery out of the electorate,”
    How? We got the Dail we voted for. That’s all we vote for. Not a government. Not a Taoiseach. A TD. That’s our Democracy at work.

    “Angry, is not sufficient to describe how many people feel..”

    Is suspect the numbers of “very angry” people – is pretty small. after all – 50% or so of the public voted for FFFG.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 8:37 PM

    @Shazam37: your simply reiterated 80 per cent of my post..your obvious mental numbness also affects your political perspective..

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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:23 PM

    Why let a proposing bill through then ?

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    Feb 27th 2020, 6:06 PM

    Unbelievable they won’t bring in a rent freeze because they are landlords, also they will help renters with public funds because they the FF and FG landlords will put rents up whenever they want to..

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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:42 PM

    Have a referendum on it then!

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    Mute Brian Cunningham
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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:39 PM

    According to this article

    https://extra.ie/2019/12/07/news/politics/landlord-tds-housing-homeless

    one in four TDs are landlords.

    It hasn’t been updated since the election, but I’d bet there’s still a sizeable contingent among the current crop.

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    Mute Margaret Kane
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    Feb 27th 2020, 6:19 PM

    He’ll say anything to be in government I wouldn’t believe a word out of his or Leo’s mouth

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    Feb 27th 2020, 7:13 PM

    Micheál Martin has one goal,and it isn’t to solve the people’s problems. It’s to become taoiseach.

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    Mute Blair Somers
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    Feb 27th 2020, 7:24 PM

    It’s grand lads, don’t be worrying, the Shinners are going to give everyone a free house. I can’t understand how they are not already in power

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    Mute Pete Lee
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    Feb 27th 2020, 6:05 PM

    Introduce tax on rental income of 90% on rent above 2000

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    Feb 27th 2020, 6:17 PM

    @Pete Lee: You know they already pay tax on rental income, and most still have to pay the mortgage on the rental property.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 6:34 PM

    @Pete Lee: yeah and have a mass loss of rental properties so more homeless. You are a genius!

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    Feb 27th 2020, 6:23 PM

    So legal eagles with plenty invested in property think that they shouldn’t get less rent on their properties. Wowzers

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    Feb 27th 2020, 7:18 PM

    They’re on course for a real pasting by Sinn Fein at the next election. FG beginning to realise that FF are now in a very vulnerable position and there must be very nervous people in FF now. Could be looking at a Labour like collapse due to being irrelevant in the lives of the citizens.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:50 PM

    Of course it hasnt their all bloody landlords

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    Feb 27th 2020, 6:33 PM

    @Aaron92utd: they are! Less than a quarter in fact

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    Feb 27th 2020, 7:36 PM

    @Craic_a_tower: Funnily enough, they got a quarter of the vote.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 7:32 PM

    Here’s an idea. If a rent freeze is indeed unconstitutional, how about the powers that be propose an amendment to the constitution, and then let us citizens have our say via a referendum. Hardly rocket science, is it.

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    Mute Tom o brien
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    Feb 27th 2020, 8:16 PM

    Thanks for the life long house tax and life long USC fianna failure

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    Mute Dave Barrett
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    Feb 27th 2020, 6:43 PM

    Thats it Micheal, protect the greedy landlords.

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    Mute Adrian Kenny
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    Feb 27th 2020, 6:32 PM

    Love how ff keep shooting themselves in the foot. So out of touch it’s not even funny.

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    Mute Kevin Thompson
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    Feb 27th 2020, 7:09 PM

    Surely if FG can put a rent increase cap of 4% per annum . then the next government could set that rent increase cap at 0.1% per annum , which would almost be a rent freeze. How is setting a rent cap not unconstitutional then?

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    Feb 28th 2020, 9:58 PM

    @Kevin Thompson: Judges aren’t stupid, an effective freeze is still unconstitutional.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 7:10 PM

    It doesn’t matter whether it is unconstitutional or not, its bad policy and that’s all that should matter. Introducing rent controls to deal with high rents caused by a lack of supply of rental properties is idiocy and populist pandering and will inevitably lock in a chronic housing shortage for decades to come. Our politicians have a knack for bringing in policies that gain them short term popularity at the expense of long term societal/economic damage. Any politician proposing such policies should have to present an objective evidence based appraisal for such policies.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 7:25 PM

    @Damon16: many societies have various forms of rent control. The only way to know whether it will work in any given society is to try it and build local authority housing directly at the same time as every government until the last fifteen years did.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 9:16 PM

    @Brendan Greene: Look up the evidence for rent control. The overwhelming evidence is that it reduces supply of properties in the long run, blocks new renters out of the market due to lack of new properties and increases prices of those properties not subject to rent controls – every country that has rent control exempts high end or newly constructed building because no new units are built otherwise. Nobody believes the state can construct enough units to alleviate enough of the demand to balance the negative effects of a rent freeze on supply of new units. Many factors limit the ability of the state to do this – lack of necessary infrastructure/capacity in local CC, labour shortage in the construction sector, lack of funding (SF 50,000 per house is an absurdly unrealistic figure), planning laws etc. It would take a significant lead in time to get these homes on-line, even if the above issues would magically be resolved. Brexit is also looming which will effect economic growth. I can’t think of a more idiotic thing to consider in the current environment than a rent freeze

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/19/why-stockholm-housing-rules-rent-control-flat

    I advise you read this Guardian article on rent control in Stockholm. Even the ultra efficient Swedes can’t manage it. It was a former mayor of Stockholm who said the best way to destroy a city short of war is to introduce rent control.

    For further reading
    https://www.uipi.com/under-the-microscope-effects-of-rent-control-a-lesson-from-san-francisco-to-europe/ – skip to conclusion if you want the gist

    This is important stuff, i’m a renter too and i’m extremely concerned. I know this will be devastating. Don’t be hood-winked.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 5:41 PM

    Bah, app told me my comment couldn’t be posted so I re-posted and lo and behold it’s there twice.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 7:48 PM

    Tax relief on paying rent should be the solution imo. Would give some reprieve to accidental landlords like myself who also themselves pay rent.

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    Feb 28th 2020, 9:56 PM

    @john mounsey: That would make too much sense.

    Popular policies have to punish someone. These days that’s landlords, bankers or developers.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 6:54 PM

    Love how ff keep shooting themselves in the foot, so out of touch it’s not even funny!!! They were blaming the confidence and supply deal with fg for doing so badly in the election and now power hungry mm is trying to go straight back in with fg again(face palm)

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    Feb 27th 2020, 7:16 PM

    Part of any solution to housing costs surely has to involve mandatory fixed-term, written leases giving security of tenure to tenants, and specifying the circumstances in which landlords may cut the lease short. For the duration of the lease, annual rent increases should be limited to the increase in the consumer price index.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 7:38 PM

    @Lesidees: Ooh, they do that in Belgium, works well.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 10:21 PM

    @Jonathan McCoy: it does, yes, it works very well

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    Feb 28th 2020, 8:47 AM

    @Lesidees: .. and decrease in line with any CPI decreases …as will inevitably occur with virus pandemics etc

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    Feb 27th 2020, 8:41 PM

    A demand-side response to a supply-side problem is not the solution!

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    Mute Patrick Barrett
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    Feb 27th 2020, 9:07 PM

    If your were been evicted because your rent was going up and you couldn’t afford it. You wouldn’t say it was unconstitutional.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 8:12 PM

    Knock knock ! .. Hello ! .. did it ever dawn on you, FF that the Constitution takes second place to the welfare of Irish citizens … both physical and mental welfare …. or that it should be amended ….

    Referendum urgently needed on “Family Home Special Status” .. like the German constitution … with NO adverse impact on general property rights….

    https://www.change.org/p/irish-housing-crisis-referendum-on-family-homes

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    Feb 27th 2020, 6:24 PM

    Let’s have a referendum to change the constitution then. Does he think we’re all fkin fools?

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    Feb 28th 2020, 4:42 AM

    Should we be surprised that a Dail which is infested with landlords, & lawyers with property briefs, should resist this rent calming measure.
    Berlin, with a well established rental culture, has clamped down on market exploitation, so if the law needs changing, change it.
    People first, not corporations, who dodge taxes as well.

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    Feb 28th 2020, 9:55 PM

    @William Kelly: Berlins construction industry has basically just collapsed under the measure.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 9:48 PM

    Allowing people to be made homeless is unconstitutional too.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 9:16 PM

    Have a referendum then. Simple.

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    Feb 27th 2020, 7:59 PM

    Basically we’re landlords, need the money

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    Feb 27th 2020, 10:45 PM

    In Fianna Fáil we know the answer , in Fianna Fáil we know the answer , so vote , vote for Fianna Fáil , (repeat) FF Circa 1981/82 CJH- The good old days …..not

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    Feb 28th 2020, 12:20 PM

    FFG continuing in Gov will mean more of the same…

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