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- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Policy (16 Dec 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 61. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures and resources she has put in place for any increased reporting of domestic violence following the What Would You Do? awareness campaign; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40443/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (16 Dec 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 145. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on reports by an organisation (details supplied) showing Ireland as a tax haven; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40901/16]
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I have a question down.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: This Bill will not be finished tomorrow.
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Will questions to the Minister proceed?
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: May I comment on that? There is no way that this Bill will be passed tomorrow because the Minister made a huge mistake of putting a whole load of planning measures in with rental measures. We will be here until 3 a.m. on Saturday if we want to give this Bill serious consideration. He should not have done that. There should have been two separate Bills.
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister should take the rental aspect out of the Bill.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: In fairness, it was Deputy Curran who first spotted it. What has been revealed here is that there is now an incentive for displacement, for tenants to be displaced by their landlords. I asked a question earlier and the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Damien English, nodded his head. I asked if the rent increase limits carry...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Sorry, but Deputy Regina Doherty is not a member of that committee.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The aforementioned committee had a meeting that went on until 11.30 p.m. the other night. The amendments were in the Minister's back pocket. He could have brought them to the committee but he chose to leave them until Report Stage. Here we are, it is 9.50 p.m. and the debate is scheduled to finish at 10 p.m. Tomorrow the Dáil is due to rise for the Christmas break. We have a dilemma...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: We put two zeros in.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It is not clear to me at all. No period is defined whatsoever. In addition, can the Minister imagine a tenant going to the landlord and saying: "Now, listen here. Under R x 1 + 000.4..."?
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: This is incredible. I asked the Minister about this in the introduction because he said "annual" rent increases, whereas my understanding was that we lived under a system of two year rent increases. The Minister changed that. It was not just a formula. The Minister used words. It is on the first page of his speech, so I do not think it was a drafting error. However, when it was...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Can I raise a point of order?
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Can we hear other proposals as well, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle?
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: They relate to the issue that the Minister has brought before us. There is no way he can propose that we do not discuss this for hours. The Minister has now brought forward the proposal. We should be able to question him on it now. I have a question. In fairness, the Deputy to my left raised it too.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Sorry. I have been here a long time. Deputy Curran raised it first. I also raised it because I asked whether the Alan Kelly two-year lease arrangement no longer exists in Dublin and Cork.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Based on the proposal on the table, people could have a rent increase every year. Therefore, it no longer exists. It relates to the formula the Minister has changed just now. We cannot divorce this discussion from the broader question. We must have a discussion on it now.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Moreover, I want an answer to the Alan Kelly question.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Can I ask a question about whether it is two-year or one-year leases in Dublin right now?