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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: The only reason I say this is because there is a lot of talk about equating it with other businesses, but there does not seem to be the understanding that we are not just managing trade but also managing the asset. It appears the flexibility to sell the asset is one of the things that is very attractive for the landlord. There has to be a tax implication for that too.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I will return to that in a later round. I call Deputy O’Donoghue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Does anybody else want to come in on that point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: There are a few more speakers, from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, to complete the rotation and I will then do lámha suas for anybody else who wants to contribute. I will put a party ranking on it and I will be fair. Senator Fitzpatrick had to go to the Seanad and has asked me to take her slot. I want to pick up where I left off before. I am trying to investigate what is happening...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Ms McCormick is aware of issues facing members of the IPOA and I want to know what her experience is in this regard. I understand that some months, only an hour would be required because the landlord only has to process a form or whatever, whereas in other months, there will be 30 hours' work involved. I am just trying to gauge the level of responsibility involved and the input required by...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I understand the responsibilities. My question is whether the time involved can be quantified.
- 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.