Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is not going to happen. I get it.

Deputy Shortall referred to section 6.4 in the lease on the landlord's mortgage. The SVHG's legal people are telling us that it is not possible to have a mortgage on a freehold, yet section 6.4 states that the SVHG commits to not taking out a mortgage without the prior consent of the tenant, that a reasonable time would be made available and so on. Why is this section in the lease if the freehold cannot be mortgaged? My good colleague, Deputy Colm Burke, tells me that that is the case, but why is this section in the lease if it is not possible? I need a simple answer.