Francis Noel Duffy (Dublin South West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 20:

In page 9, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following:

“6.Section 67(1) of the Act of 2004 is amended by the insertion of “subject to section 5(1) of the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020after “tenancy” where it secondly occurs.”.

Section 67, as drafted, would allow a landlord to issue a 28-day notice to a tenant for non-payment and then issue a termination notice within 28 further days. This is a total of 56 days, which is less than the three months emergency period. The proposed amendments simply provide that the section 67 entitlement of the landlord to serve a 28-day notice to quit is subject to the three-month emergency period. Therefore, a landlord should not be able to serve a notice to quit for arrears during the three-month emergency period.

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