Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 December 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Catherine Comer:

With regard to the Part 4 tenancies we mentioned earlier there is a different relationship between before one is a Part 4 and when one is a Part 4 tenant. We also looked at the 90 days as to how it would work from a practical point of view. This is also a notice of a termination on the basis of sale and such grounds might not be used before it is a Part 4 tenancy.

On Tyrrelstown tenancies in the main if it is a whole apartment block, for example a build-to-rent block or something like that, the planning permission is that they are rental properties not private properties. Ultimately we do not want to be in a position where, if planning permission is given for a rental property they become private properties and if that happened a significant basis of that would not be appropriate either.

With regard to the transfer, and gifting in that case, this is on the basis of sale. If it is on the basis of the sale of a property if it is being gifted to someone, during the last couple of weeks when we started drafting, we found that under head 5 we do not require that - and the drafters told us that - so we will not have it in the Bill.

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