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- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)
Fintan Warfield: I have not received an answer to my question.
- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)
Fintan Warfield: I am asking, as a Senator-----
- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)
Fintan Warfield: I support the intention of the amendment. My preference and that of Sinn Féin is for a 30% cap and we will get to that amendment later. That would be incredible for ordinary people. It would be transformative that people could have roofs over their heads at a cost of 30% of their income. We need to put that wording in legislation.
- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)
Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 14: In page 32, line 12, to delete “40 years” and substitute “50 years”. I welcome the improvement on the repayment period of 30 years following the passing of amendment on Committee Stage, but I believe 50 years is better than what is currently in the Bill and what was previously in the Bill, going on a model. Going by the Vienna model,...
- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)
Fintan Warfield: A whole chunk of renters pay 60% of their salary every month for rent. It was mentioned that we do not need arbitrary figures. We do need a figure. In Sinn Féin's view, we need to put in the Bill the figure of 30% of what people earn and ensure that rent would not exceed this. This is the definition of affordable. That would be incredible for ordinary people. It would be absolutely...
- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)
Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 22: In page 35, lines 28 to 31, to delete all words from and including “to” in line 28 down to and including “prescribe,” in line 31 and substitute “that is up to 30 per cent of the net income of the proposed tenant”.
- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)
Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 26: In page 36, to delete line 21 and substitute the following: “(a) be served 90 days before”
- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)
Fintan Warfield: Amendment No. 26 refers to page 36 in the Bill and relates to a rent review notice. The Bill states that it shall, "be served not earlier than two weeks before, and not later than four weeks after, the date on which the setting of the rent by way of a review is to take effect".The standard for the Residential Tenancies Act is 90 days for a review. I firmly believe that two weeks, especially...
- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)
Fintan Warfield: I do not buy that all. The Bill says in black and white: A rent review notice shall— (a) be served not earlier than two weeks before, and not later than four weeks after, I do not see how this amounts to a tenant having his or her eyes open as regards a rent review. Standard practice under the Residential Tenancies Act and the RTB is that a tenant needs to get at least 90 days...
- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)
Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 27: In page 36, line 24, after “review” to insert “including the detail of how the new rent amount was arrived at”.
- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)
Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 28: In page 39, to delete lines 33 to 40, and in page 40, to delete lines 1 to 30.
- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)
Fintan Warfield: Senator Mullen is being good to me today. There is a concern that the owner can seek a revocation of the cost-rental designation once the minimum cost-rental designation period comes to an end and that the Minister must revoke it, given the mandatory meaning of "shall" in section 39. The minimum period is at least as long as the cost calculation period of 40 years, which we have debated and...
- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)
Fintan Warfield: I still believe this undermines the long-term benefit of cost-rental. I am worried about the tenant who may have been in a property for 40 years. What will happen after that period?Will they face a market rent or, worse, eviction? Senator Higgins has spoken about international investors. There is no obligation on them to act in the interests of tenants, in contrast to AHBs. What will...
- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)
Fintan Warfield: I am.
- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)
Fintan Warfield: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)
Fintan Warfield: On a point of order, this very same amendment was submitted on Committee Stage. Thanks to Senator Higgins's amendment, I will still have a chance to speak to the issue of shared equity.
- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)
Fintan Warfield: I was.
- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)
Fintan Warfield: I am not happy with that, no.
- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)
Fintan Warfield: I appreciate that is the situation. I am thankful that Senator Higgins's amendment will allow us to discuss the developer-led shared equity scheme.
- Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)
Fintan Warfield: I second the amendment.