Kathryn Reilly (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 6:

In page 28, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following:
“(c) at the time of making its application for an excluding order, or as soon as possible thereafter, a housing authority shall notify the Child and Family Agency of the nature of the application concerned.”,”.

As they are grouped I will discuss the three amendments. Acceptance of amendment No. 6 means that if an exclusion order is issued, the Child and Family Agency should be notified. This is to ensure any appropriate services needed by the agency can be afforded to the household but also that the Child and Family Agency is aware of the ongoing problem.
Acceptance of amendment No. 7 would mean that the court deciding on an application for eviction must consider whether the local authority followed the proper procedure in terms of trying to deal with and resolve the continuing problems that led it to apply for repossession. This is in keeping with the updating of repossession law in this Bill, which recognises the judgment of the Supreme Court that previous laws did not properly uphold the right of tenants to a fair hearing. Amendment No. 8 is in keeping with the other two amendments.