Community Action Tenants Union (CATU), a group organising Irish renters to fight for their rights, has laid out the disastrous effects of an Irish government housing bill, six months on from the president signing it into law. At the time the Residential Tenancies Bill (RTB) passed, we quoted People Before Profit’s Paul Murphy saying: This is a bill for rip-off rents. That’s the purpose of it. It’s not an accidental outcome of it, that’s the purpose. The government strategy explicitly is to get rents to rise higher in order to attract more investment. That appears to have proven correct, with large…