John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I wish to make one point. Fr. McVerry mentioned landlords selling properties and notice being given to the sitting tenant. I fail to understand why notice would be given at all. If it was a commercial property, whatever the tenancy agreement was would reside with the property. If there was a tenant in a commercial property and it was being sold, the tenant and the tenancy would go with the property. I fail to understand how every time a property goes for sale, it seems to have to be vacant. What is causing real pressure on it is when receivers are appointed. The first thing they do is clear the property rather than try to sell it as a going concern with tenants - as a business. Fr. McVerry might not like it being described as a business. I believe it is appalling that the first thing done by a receiver is the removal of the tenant from the property. If it was a commercial property, the tenancy would continue to reside there. I fail to understand why that is not the normal practice for residential tenancies.