Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the fact that the Government is extending the notice periods. In fact, while Deputy Boyd Barrett's amendment extends some of the notice periods, some of those extensions are not as advantageous as the Government's.

The real issue is for people who are tenants for less than six months because a 28-day notice period is not enough, particularly given the market we are in. The one change I want to make to the Government's notice periods is to allow 90 days when the duration of tenancy is less than six months. One would not need that in a normal rental market. There have been a small number of cases wherein people have signed up to a rental agreement and something significant has happened, such as a vacant possession or a notice to quit under pressure from a bank and that family has 28 days to vacate. That is why I propose 90 days.