Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

My concern about energy efficiency measures is that the State is subsiding them. If we are subsidising a landlord to do up his or her house, which is what we want, we do not want tenants to be put at risk of eviction because of work that is being paid for, or at least subsidised, by the State. At the moment, landlords have to offer the tenancy back. I think the tenants who were in place have first refusal. Has the Department ever looked into making it a legislative requirement that the tenant who is in situwhen renovations happen remains the tenant and has a home to return to once the works are completed?