Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

First, to clarify, the second part of my amendment which the Minister of State read out, which was ruled out of order, is a typographical error. It was only to reinstate subsection (3), which it is proposed to delete.

The Minister is getting rid of this section, which is the condition that applies to commercial refurbishment in relevant houses which required the rest of the house to be refurbished for residential purposes. When the initiative was initially before us in legislation, the only houses that could have availed of this initiative were Georgian houses and then it was changed to a relevant house, which meant a building constructed before 1915 for use as a dwelling comprising at least two storeys with or without a basement. To apply the section to it for commercial use, would they have to have carried out work on the living part of that house?