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. Patrick Davitt:

The point I am trying to get to is how we can get other viewers to view the property and make an offer on the property while there is a tenant inside the property. There is nothing in the Bill that says the tenant must allow viewers of the property. If the tenant does not allow viewers of the property or if someone goes to the view the property and the tenant does not have it in as nice a state as one would like to have it in, as an agent bringing somebody to look at it, in that situation surely it will devalue the property and that is why this would be done.