Construction & Engineering - Horizon Scanner: Infrastructure, Construction, Energy, April 2025

Ireland's residential tenancies regime has undergone further significant reform through the Housing and Residential Tenancies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2026, introducing new enforcement mechanisms and procedural changes that landlords must navigate. The RTB now wields expanded powers including fixed payment notices for compliance breaches, while adjudication hearings have shifted to public forums with published outcomes.

The Housing and Residential Tenancies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2026 has reached near-complete implementation with the commencement of critical enforcement provisions. The Residential Tenancies Board now has expanded powers through both High Court and District Court mechanisms, fundamentally changing the compliance landscape for residential property managers. With only one minor provision remaining uncommenced, landlords and property managers face an urgent need to review their registration and complia

On 18 September 2026, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage published a package of draft regulations intended to support commencement of the remaining provisions of the Planning and Development Act 2024.

Ireland's residential rental sector has undergone significant transformation with the enactment of two major pieces of legislation in 2026. The Housing and Residential Tenancies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2026 introduces substantial changes to compliance requirements, enforcement mechanisms, and dispute resolution processes that landlords and property managers must navigate. These reforms include new fixed payment notice regimes, extended timeframes for RTB proceedings, increased penalties, and stricter

The Planning and Development (Costs of Part 9 Judicial Review Proceedings) Regulations 2026, which came into operation on 18 May 2026, introduce a fixed statutory schedule of costs caps governing the legal costs recoverable by a successful applicant in planning judicial review proceedings taken under the Planning and Development Act 2024.

Please briefly describe the main laws that govern real estate in your jurisdiction. Laws relating to leases of business premises should be listed in response to question...

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Construction contracts under the Public Works Contract establish a rigorous procedural framework that contractors must navigate before any valuation of variations or compensation events can occur. This analysis examines the critical distinction between establishing entitlement through proper claims procedures and the subsequent valuation process, exploring how failure to comply with notice requirements and conditions precedent can bar claims regardless of their underlying merit.

Significant challenges have arisen in recent years with the exponential rise of planning related judicial review challenges, at a time when there has never been a greater urgency to deliver...

Yesterday the Government published the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021.