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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I hear that. I am not trying to trap people here. I am genuinely trying to quantify the time involved. The witnesses are saying it is a huge responsibility, there is an increased burden and so on. I just want to try to quantify that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: The witnesses have not given me an answer but it might be a question they have not considered before. I am not hearing that there is a requirement for 500 hours or 300 hours a year. I do not know whether I am even hearing about a requirement for 50 hours a year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: In the case of a property being rented for €2,000 a month, say, while I accept there might be capital repayments, taxation and all of the rest of it, if we look at investment versus return just from a work perspective, there are significant margins there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: To be fair, Ms McCormick is saying that but she cannot give an answer to my question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: The answer Ms McCormick gave me indicates that it is more passive than active.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: It is perhaps not completely different to other businesses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: That is why I am trying to understand the motivation. There have been suggestions that one could use the phrase "general and progressive" with regard to Ireland's increasing rights for tenants. I hope I am not misquoting Ms McCormick. Has the Government placed particular responsibilities on landlords that the witnesses feel are egregious or unfair, which they would like not to have and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: The annual registration comes with an obligation not to increase rent by more than a certain percentage. There was the eviction ban during Covid. Can Ms McCormick point to any single intervention that we made which is egregious?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: What specifically is an issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Would Ms McCormick prefer if that dispute resolution system was not there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate that I have gone over time. Is that the principal intervention that Ms McCormick believes needs to be rolled back?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I should have been as strict with myself as I was with everybody else. As we are entering the final round, however, we can be a bit more generous with time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Let us give everybody enough time to say what they want rather than going round in circles. Senator Cummins can have the remainder of Senator Seery Kearney's time and his full seven minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I will bring Deputy Gould in. We will try to get the witnesses out early. They have been here for a long time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: That completes our round. Three speakers have indicated, Deputies Gould, Ó Broin and myself, with seven minutes each, which will bring us to the end. I call Deputy Gould to speak now, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: The Deputy is giving the witnesses 40 seconds to answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: All Deputy Ó Broin's seven minutes were questions. He should allow the witnesses to reply.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: It is 5.47 p.m. I have a seven-minute slot now, which brings us to a five-minute slot for Senator Cummins.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I notice the seven minutes Senator Cummins did not need are being utilised. Two people are indicating now as well. I will allow Ms O'Reilly, Ms McCormick and Mr. Duggan to come in on that point. I hope I get my seven minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Senator Cummins's slot did take seven minutes.