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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have not seen the legal opinion so I cannot comment on that. Given that the restriction applies to commercial rentals, it has to be legally possible, whether retrospectively or not, to apply the same rule to new tenancies. On the issue of the impact, it is not that I do not care about the impact on the property owner but, to use a phrase that the Minister and his predecessor always like...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Our original intention was to break at 1 p.m. Is that still the case?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I scheduled a meeting for 1 p.m. on the basis that we agreed to a break at 1 p.m. earlier.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not wish to delay proceedings.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not going to waste the committee's time because we had this discussion previously. These amendments provide for the removal of the proposed remedial notice proposition because it is not necessary. I am not convinced that an argument has been made as to why the change in the original legislation is there and, therefore, I propose to delete that section.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I welcome the fact that the Government is extending the notice periods. In fact, while Deputy Boyd Barrett's amendment extends some of the notice periods, some of those extensions are not as advantageous as the Government's. The real issue is for people who are tenants for less than six months because a 28-day notice period is not enough, particularly given the market we are in. The one...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 16: In page 6, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(b) in subsection (5) by the deletion of paragraph (a).”. This amendment is straightforward. It seeks to remove the exemption originally introduced in respect of new dwellings in the RPZ legislation, new properties on the market and so forth. The Minister has a similar amendment and,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I think I understand it, but the Minister read the note very quickly. In terms of the implication of the Minister's amendment for the rent review, obviously there is no rent review in the first setting of the rent so the mechanism for setting the rent is the market rent as per the RTB index for that type of property in that area. The rent reviews, as per the rent pressure zones, would apply...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: On that basis, I am happy to withdraw amendment No. 16.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Many of us argued for this in amendments when the legislation was originally introduced in 2016. I am delighted that, three years on, the Minister is catching up with the Opposition.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: In respect of the Minister's amendments I am, in principle, in favour of a statutory definition of substantial refurbishments. That was always our position and, while I liked the version in the original Bill on account of it being so restrictive, we have to deal with the amendments in front of us. I have a couple of technical questions. The criteria for an extension are straightforward...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Based on the analysis of the new qualifying criteria for everywhere outside of Dublin, which I presume the Minister or the RTB has done, what would be their impact or is it too early to say?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I presume that once the legislation is enacted, the RTB would relatively quickly make recommendations and publish the new areas to be included.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: The existing rent pressure zones are based on local electoral areas. We have had some boundary changes, Cork being the most obvious. Where a boundary has changed but the RPZ designation was made under the earlier LEA boundary, does that have an impact? I accept the Minister might not be able to answer that question now. It is an issue that came up recently in conversation with my Cork...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is another-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. I do not have the detail with me but I will forward it to the Minister. Apparently, part of one LEA is currently in a rent pressure zone but it will no longer be in that LEA.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: That could be the solution.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will do that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 50: In page 7, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: "Amendment of section 34 of Act 2004 5. Section 34 of the Act of 2004 is amended by the deletion of paragraph 3 of the Table to that section.".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 51: In page 7, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: "Amendment of section 34 of Act 2004 5. Section 34 of the Act of 2004 is amended in paragraph 4 of the Table to that section by the deletion of "or for occupation by a member of his or her family and the notice of termination (the "notice") contains or is accompanied by a statutory declaration" and the...