Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Barry Kehoe:
While Ms Finney is getting out the numbers, the RPZ extension does not have an impact on Westmeath, in that the whole county was already an RPZ. I know some of the other parts of the midlands were and I suppose it does protect existing tenancies, there is that advantage across the region in its entirety, as some parts were not previously in it. That element of it is certainly welcome. On the cost of transitioning from one tenant to another, it is running at about €16,000 per unit and we get a grant from the Department of €11,000 per unit. That is our rate. Is that what the Cathaoirleach meant?