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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I suspect the Minister might take a different view but that is a separate matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: A statutory declaration would do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: In fairness to Senator Cummins, before the meeting started we had a discussion about this when we were told the LDA was not coming in. I very much share Senator Cummins's views but just to share what I said earlier, we should write back to the LDA and make it very clear that as a committee we are deeply disappointed. We should insist that they come in next week-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The tenor of the letter suggests they are available but do not want to come in, for whatever reason. We need to send as strong as possible a communication this week to make it very clear that we want them in next week. I can see no reason they cannot come in on Tuesday. There are other reasons they will not come in but we need to write to them as a matter of urgency. I share Senator...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: A multi-unit development. We are talking about an apartment block. I am not arguing about whether this is right or wrong, as I will have that argument with the Minister on Second Stage, but I am trying to understand this. It could be the case that, in a multi-unit development or single apartment block, one landlord is not obligated by the conditions of this scheme because he or she owns a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Under the terms of the Tyrrelstown amendment.

Renters: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, not embarrassed? He comes in here at the end of every debate and he reads a script, the majority of which I do not believe he believes to be true. At some point, he must be deeply embarrassed personally with what he is doing, as well as with what the Government is doing. Deputy Doherty asked the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, before he ran out of...

Renters: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Rents.

Renters: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: - Fine Gael have been in Government for 12 years; - Fianna Fáil have been propping them up for seven years; - during that time the housing crisis has gone from bad to worse; - rents are at an all-time high and rising; and - the Government have missed the social and affordable housing targets three years in a row; notes with...

Renters: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It has never been harder in modern times to be a private renter. Rents are at record highs and are continuing to rise ever upward. The threat of eviction and eviction notices is a daily reality and the threat of homelessness for an ever-wider range of people living in the private rental sector is a real concern. We only have to look at the data that is produced by Government agencies to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yesterday, "RTÉ Investigates" broadcast a documentary with some very serious revelations about our planning system. It showed two individuals involved in what can only be described as an appalling breach of that system and who may well be subject to future criminal proceedings. Yesterday morning, theditch.ierevealed that one of the individuals at the centre of the documentary was, of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the proportion?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: As a percentage of housing stock, it has fallen. The Taoiseach knows that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank everybody for their submissions, especially in such a short timescale. As always, we are keen to see a more detailed submission. Will Ms O'Reilly provide more detail on her concerns about the non-purchase heads, on the slip mechanism and vacancy on transfer? The committee would like to hear more about those. Mr. Deverell made an important point on vacant possession. When I read...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: For everybody's clarity and the public record, will Mr. Murtagh explain the slip rule and how it operates?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will come back to my other questions in the second round because we have run out of time.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tax Collection (5 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the options available for renewal of motor tax to people who do not have access to or who cannot use online services. [53207/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (5 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm if funding for interim fire safety works will be provided to homeowners or OMCs impacted by building defects before 31 January 2023. [53451/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (5 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm that applicants to the first defective concrete block remediation scheme on transfer to the revised defective concrete block remediation scheme will be eligible for grant levels based on the most up-to-date SCSI square meter rates. [53449/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reports (5 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm when he intends to publish a summary commentary on the Mulcahy report into allegations of planning irregularities in County Donegal. [53450/23]