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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: It is 10.30 p.m.

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: When I break my own rules on acronyms, it always goes wrong. I meant the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund. A 4% annual return is reasonable. From what I can see, the Minister has not provided for 4% annual return. It is 4% in the first year, effectively 8% from base point in the second year and 12% in the third year. So it is a significantly higher level once a landlord passes that...

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. 135:In page 35, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following:“Insertion of section 19A in the Act of 200427. The Act of 2004 is amended by the insertion, after section 19, of the following new section:“19A. Any subsequent setting of the rent under the tenancy by way of a review of that rent shall not be greater or less than the level of inflation as...

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. 136:In page 35, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following:“27. The Act of 2004 is amended by the insertion, after section 19, of the following new section:“19A.Any subsequent setting of the rent under the tenancy by way of a review of that rent shall not be greater or less than an index as decided by the Minister through regulation.”.”.

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: Deputy Kenny would never feel such a thing.

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. 145:In page 35, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following:“Amendment of section 28 of Act of 2004 28. The Act of 2004 is amended in section 28(2)(a) by the substitution of “for an indefinite period from” for “for the period of 4 years from”.”.

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. 148:In page 35, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:“Restriction on termination of tenancies of buy-to-let dwellings 29. The Residential Tenancies Act 2004 is amended by inserting the following section after section 34:“Restriction on termination of tenancies of buy-to-let dwellings 34A. (1) A Part 4 tenancy may not be terminated by 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: I move amendment No. 149:149.In page 35, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:“Amendment of section 34(b) Table 3 of the Act of 2004 29. The Act of 2004 is amended by the deletion of “3. The landlord intends, within 3 months after the termination of the tenancy under this section, to enter into an enforceable agreement for the transfer to another, for full...

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. 163:In page 36, line 17, to delete “5 or more” and substitute “1 or more”.

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. 164:In page 36, to delete lines 20 to 34.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Message to Dáil (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Some of us gave the staff a very significant number of amendments so I thank the departmental staff who came back to us with the information, our clerks and, in particular, the Bills Office. Perhaps the Chairman could write, on our behalf, to the Bills Office to thank them for turning the amendments around so quickly.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Agency Portfolio (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason for the low take-up of house purchases by the Housing Agency from banks (details supplied) as detailed in Parliamentary Question No. 145 of 1 December 2016; and if he will provide additional funding to the Housing Agency to increase the number of these properties to be purchased as a matter of urgency....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 246. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to meet with representatives of the Ringsend Glass Bottle Site Housing Action Group (details supplied) to discuss their plans for the old glass bottle site portion of the SDZ in Ringsend, Dublin; and if he will consider their proposals for maximising the provision of social and affordable housing in that...

Social and Affordable Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: On behalf of Sinn Féin, I am very pleased to be able to support Deputy Jan O'Sullivan's Bill. As with much of the work many of us have been doing, including the Deputy, this Bill is about trying to increase the supply of social and affordable housing to tackle the acute levels of housing need and homelessness. The Minister said earlier that the November homelessness figures indicate...

Social and Affordable Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I look forward with great interest to Deputy Cowen's rent certainty legislation. Unlike him, I believe that if legislation is worth supporting, even if I would like to see some technical changes, I will vote for it if it is the right thing to do, irrespective of how it makes me look politically. On some of the other changes to the Residential Tenancies Act, including the termination of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers Conciliation Council (8 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a teacher who teaches in a Catholic school in the US for 13 years is only entitled to seven years incremental criteria under the provisions of circular 10 of 2001 while a teacher teaching in a comparable school in the UK for a comparable period of time is awarded credits on a year for year basis; his views on whether this practice is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Strategies (8 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 105. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will publish the membership of the rental strategy working group; the number of times it has met; and the persons or bodies it has met and received submissions from. [39327/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Waste Disposal Charges (8 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 234. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the pay by weight waste collection system will commence; if he has satisfied himself that the necessary preparations have been undertaken across the State; and if he is considering scrapping plans for its introduction. [39263/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Correspondence (7 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 127. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason he has not replied to e-mails of 3 October 2016, 17 October 2016, 11 November 2016 in respect of persons (details supplied) and a grant for a housing adaptation that requires approval of his Department. [39130/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (6 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 185. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if all pre-2011 RAS tenants are eligible to remain on their local authorities housing lists and have access to allocations from the primary housing list or choice based letting systems. [38362/16]