Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I revert to the point of the 28 days or to the provision that someone who has been in a property for eight years or more will be obliged to give 112 days' notice to the landlord. This strikes me as a provision that has not been thought out because it does not really make sense. For example, someone who has been in a property for eight years or more may lose his or her job. The employer is only obliged to give that person a month's notice and he or she must move on to seek another job. It is pretty draconian that such people would be obliged to pay the rent for three and a half months when they may be obliged to leave the county or the country to find a job. The proposed reduction to 28 days definitely is worth considering and I do not perceive the merit for the landlord. I am not one who thinks all landlords should be hung, drawn and quartered and run out of the country as I live in the real world but I believe the Minister of State should reconsider this issue.

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