Ms Marie Baker:

There were many questions in this area. Since 2004, there has been a separate scheme for residential tenancies and a Bill has been published regarding the general creation of the landlord and tenant relationship and certain arrangements for commercial tenants. We had many questions, some of which were almost philosophical. In other words, should we as a nation consider long-term tenure for residential tenancies? There were more discrete questions as to whether the means of gaining possession of land are sufficiently user friendly. They are too complex, as there are too many forms of action.

We are aware that legislation has been published and work is being done by the Department but we thought, having regard to the fact that there were so many requests for consideration of landlord and tenant issues, it was a topic worth considering to feed in perhaps to the work being done in the Department. We have a number of discrete questions.