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Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be happy to withdraw amendment No. 130 on that basis.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 132:In page 34, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following:“24.Section 28 of the Act of 2000 (as amended by section 2 of the Act of 2015) is amended by the deletion of subsection (1C).”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his response. We have had a debate in the past number of months over increasing the supply of social housing, rental properties and private sector houses. It is important that in the course of the debate we do not lose sight of building standards or quality of living standards for the people who will occupy those units. While it is slightly opportunistic of me to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not want to repeat anything, but I wish to make two points. It is appropriate for central Government to set minimum standards across a whole range of areas, however, the elected members of the local authorities may believe it is in the best interest of citizens to go beyond or above the standards in their city or county development plan. That is something that not only should be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: They may do. Or one may have local authorities that have environmental, passive house or quality of life standards for tenants, which try to provide an even better quality of outcome than central Government policy would do. Within the context of the democratically elected members in a county development plan, that is an important function of our democracy. However, specifically concerning...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: On a point of order, does the grouping list not state we have to take amendments Nos. 134 to 136, inclusive, before amendments Nos. 133 and 145?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am working off the grouped list, as opposed to the numbered list.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: It makes no difference to me.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I think my grouping list is different so can I clarify which ones we are taking now?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I support the spirit of amendment No. 133. I realise that we will come back to these matters on Report Stage and in the new year when we see the outworkings of the Minister's rental strategy, which was launched today. Obviously we will come back to some of this material on Report Stage. I presume that in the new year we will see the outworkings of the Minister's rental strategy, which was...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: While I do not wish to prolong the debate, I have a number of specific questions. On Second Stage, I asked two questions on the amendments to section 42, which I welcomed. Approved housing body tenancies now come under the terms of the Residential Tenancies Act, which is a welcome change. In the case of a person who has been a long-term tenant of an approved housing body, one of the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Obviously the basket of rights they get under the Residential Tenancies Act, RTA, is greater. However, is there any diminution in the first six months of their first Part 4 tenancy as they now come under the Act? I cannot see it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: It would be good to get a formal response at some stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Did we miss votes on some of the amendments?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: We do the votes in sequence, apologies.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Chairman has told me that already. I move amendment No. 134:In page 35, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 19 of the Act of 2004 27. Section 19(2)(b) of the Act of 2004 is hereby repealed.”. I will not rehearse the very lengthy debates we have had on rent certainty. I will not open up that part of the debate.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is not getting off that easily.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I listened carefully at the press conference today. Obviously, because we have been in Committee all day, we did not have the time to read the detail of the report. I went to the launch to get as much of the detail as possible. I would like to hear the Minister's response to two things in light of what he said today. He talked about the balance between the ability of the investor to make...