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.