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. Brendan Allen:
I wish to respond. The landlord wants to sell. If the facilities are put in place by the Government where it gives the local authority the ability to buy, landlords are delighted to sell to them if it is at market price. We do not necessarily want to evict tenants; we want to get out of a financial difficulty we may be in. There is no intention to make people homeless; rather, it is a consequence of the individual landlord’s set of circumstances more than anything else.