Rebecca Moynihan (Labour)
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I will follow up on the Tyrrelstown amendment. Build-to-rent comes out of the most recent guidelines but an awful lot of apartment blocks would be owned by a corporate landlord or by one landlord who is pre- the current guidelines. Even pre-'63 there might have been a number of different units that would meet the criteria of the Tyrrelstown amendment. I am thinking about one area in my own area of Dublin 8 where the Tyrrelstown amendment applied and where the landlord was trying to evict everybody. I kind of understand what Ms Comer is saying in terms of whether something is built to rent but that would potentially apply to very few. Is there another reason and rationale for excluding those apartments where the Tyrrelstown amendment might apply? There are situations where a landlord might own ten apartments in a block they have invested in. They do not own the whole block but they have bought them, or are small-scale investors, or what they would consider small-scale investors.