Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 May 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion
2:00 pm
Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
-----put in place with the housing delivery unit. I gave an example earlier of finding a local authority interpreting government policy in the wrong way because a Deputy brought it to my attention. We can then direct that local authority as to what the actual intention of the policy is. In the example I gave earlier, it was to make staged payments. Senator Murnane O'Connor asked me to do something that I cannot do. I cannot change an area and make it a rent pressure zone, RPZ. That is against the law. There is a legal, statutory basis for how an area becomes a rent pressure zone. It is not my decision as a Minister. I cannot do that. I ask the Senator not to ask things of me that I cannot do.
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