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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: 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...

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”.”.