Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 April 2016

Committee on Housing and Homelessness

Interim Report of Committee

10:30 am

Photo of Ruth CoppingerRuth Coppinger (Dublin West, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The first two are: security of tenure and sale of properties; and grounds for eviction.

The third issue is compulsory purchase orders of privately owned property or land. It is an issue that has come up with regard to vulture fund, distressed vacant properties. One speaker I was thinking of was Edmund Honahan, Master of the High Court, who has spoken recently on the CPOs, or somebody like him. Barra Lysaght is a barrister and legal officer of Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. He was formerly a legal officer with Threshold, so he might be a good person on rent controls and security of tenure legal issues. The third group that could be invited is the Tyrrelstown tenants, who are currently in the situation of asking for their homes to be acquired because they are under threat from a vulture fund.

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.