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- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: It is not standard practice for the guidelines to be included with the legislation.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: This Bill is not an effort to deal with everything.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: I do not disagree with any of this but we have a huge amount of work to get done today.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: We are doing a great deal about it.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: The Deputy agreed with what we are doing.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: There were many questions and I will answer as many of them as I can. First, there has been a lot of general commentary on the need to increase the supply of social housing, to work with local authorities in doing it, to increase funding for it, to streamline planning decisions, to ensure that the Part 8 process works in a streamlined way and to ensure that we are purchasing vacant...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: I do not accept that.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: Amendment, No. 55 incorporates the changes that we made this morning. That is my understanding. I will give an answer to the second half of Deputy Jonathan O'Brien's question that I had not an opportunity to provide earlier. A tenancy whereby a group of tenants jointly occupy a single residential unit will be protected under the rent predictability measure. Let me be clear on the issue...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: When we get criticism from both sides, it indicates that we have got the balance reasonably right. Deputy O'Dowd asked about tax and vacant homes. We have not decided to do that in this strategy, but who knows what we will do in the future? I expect that would be a decision for budget time and there would have to be a great deal of consultation before we did it. Deputy Burton referred...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: It is not a vacuum, and I will tell the Deputy why. We have to have a thresholds so that if it is passed in the future, an area qualifies. If we have the means of actually testing, it has to be a rolling threshold that can be implemented in one, two or three years' time. If we decide that we will only look at the picture as it is today, we are ignoring potential pressures that may develop...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: That is how it will work, and that is why the commuter areas around Dublin, and Fianna Fáil was very strong on this aspect, are being prioritised, as are the cities of Waterford, Limerick and Galway, and the areas contiguous to Cork city because they are the areas that are likely to have rent pressure zones designated when we examine the more localised data. In terms of Deputy Howlin's...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: Define "rent review"? I have a note on this here. On the Deputy's question on subsection (6) of my amendment, where notice has been served on a tenant before the zone is designated, the limit will not apply. This is also the case where a rent review is deemed to have commenced. This would be where negotiations between the landlord and tenant-----
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: -----have already taken place, although a formal notice has not been issued. In these cases the landlord would have to provide proof that the review had in fact commenced. When a tenant disagrees, they can refer the case to the RTB which will decide. We should remember that landlords can only start a review process two years after the last increase under the provisions introduced last...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: -----we need to bear in mind that there is a general legal principle against retrospection in legislation. That clarifies most of the issues that have been raised.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: That is the retrospection piece that I am referring to here. I will check it and come back to the Deputy, but my understanding is that if a rent review has begun before the designation takes place, I think we have clarity on that.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: It is when the negotiations between the landlord and the tenant begin on a rent review, and it cannot happen within two years of the last rent review.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: It is.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: We will be coming to the planning issue in the next amendment.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: We have just done that with three buildings.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: It will be over 17,000.