Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 December 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

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

Mr. Zak Murtagh:

If I can add something, it is something of a Pyrrhic victory to be awarded compensation after you have been put out of your home and there is no other home, necessarily, for you to go back to. A lot of the focus from some of the other people before the committee today has been on achieving the best possible price out there in the market around properties. We are in a historic housing crisis and selling properties with a tenantin situ does not necessarily mean people are getting an appalling or awful price and we have to keep that in consideration.