Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 3 March 2015
Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government
Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised)
5:10 pm
Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I want to ask the Minister about RAS. He said it was very successful. My experience is that landlords are exiting as quickly as they can. The HAP scheme is based on the same principle, namely, that the local authority leases the house.
However, the house is leased below the market rent and over a long period. How will that work in counties where landlords are ditching the schemes as quick as they can? They can get up to 30% more rent on the open market than from RAS or HAP. Rent control is the only way to solve the matter.
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