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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does the lack of certainty on that cause any difficulties for management and forward planning?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: When does Mr. Coleman expect to have all the capitalisation it has got from the State to be fully committed? Will it be at the end of this year or next year? When will that money will run out, effectively?

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: What an utter shambles. In my entire time in Dáil Éireann, I have never witnessed a more haphazard, ramshackle, back-of-the-envelope process for putting in place widespread reforms that are going to impact tens of thousands of people. While I understand Ministers and Ministers of State have to come here and defend this farce, privately they must be absolutely reeling. The...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: In the best-case scenario, all this will do is create a modest increase in the levels of institutional investment in high-end, high-cost, private rental cost developments in the Google quarter, Sandyford and other high-income areas. Everyone else will be left behind. The industry reaction to this has ranged from the lukewarm to the hostile because the Government could not even get that bit...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have heard the Minister and the Taoiseach say over and over again that they are going to protect all existing renters. Some 80% of current renters are in tenancies of six years or less. Long-term renters are in the minority. That is becoming increasingly evident through the constant levels of eviction notices. The idea that somehow existing renters are protected is simply not true. ...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister should go and talk to the journalists who raised these questions with his officials at the technical briefing. This was going to be in the legislation later this year. While the RPZs should have always applied to all renters back in 2016, no one should be facing rent increases right now. We need rent increases banned for an emergency period of three years for those renters...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 19 of Principal Act 2. Section 19(4)(b) of the Principal Act is amended, in the definition of “relevant percentage”— (a) in paragraph (a), by the substitution of “0 per cent” for “2 per cent”, and (b) by the deletion of...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 3: In page 3, line 25, to delete "28 February 2026" and substitute "23 June 2028". The amendments in this group are straightforward. They are connected to the amendment No. 1, the purpose of which was to ensure that rent could not be set above zero, effectively giving rise to a ban on rent increases. This was to change the principal Act and the amending legislation...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: One of the issues the Minister did not respond to at the closing of his Second Stage speech was raised by his Government colleague Deputy Carrigy and I. One of the consequences of extending the rent pressure zones to areas currently not designated is that, theoretically speaking, Eoghan Murphy's 2019 short-term letting regulations would apply. Obviously, the Government has decided to take a...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: To be very clear, my view is that the Eoghan Murphy 2019 regulations should not be applied because, first, they are unenforceable and, second, the Government and the Opposition are currently working on a mechanism to do that. Therefore, I am inviting the Minister to say that they will not be applied.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is factually not the case. In fact, in the original rent pressure zones of Dublin and Cork, and also in the successive waves of rent pressure zones, those short-term lets operating outside of planning law continue to operate outside of planning law. The reason for this - the Minister was not responsible for it - is that Eoghan Murphy did not put any effective enforcement mechanism into...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not the proposal. I am asking for the Minister to clarify his position on it. That is all. It is a reasonable request. His own Government colleague from Fine Gael, Deputy Carrigy, the Chair of the housing committee, asked for the Minister to clarify and he ignored him as well as me.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not what I am calling for.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just to be very clear, I am not calling for any legislative change. A set of regulations were introduced in 2019 that do not work and are completely unapplicable. That is why in Dublin, for example, where we need a very tough approach to unregulated short-term letting, we need new regulations. We have been calling for that for a long time. All I am asking the Minster to do is clarify his...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 4: In page 3, line 27, to delete “28 February 2026” and substitute “23 June 2028”.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 5: In page 4, line 11, to delete “28 February 2026” and substitute “23 June 2028”.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 8: In page 4, line 14, to delete “28 February 2026” and substitute “23 June 2028”.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 9: In page 4, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following: “Report on ban on rent increases 5. Within a week of the passing of this Bill the Minister for Housing will publish a report on the introduction of an emergency ban on rent increases for all private rental tenants, including existing tenancies, new tenancies in existing rental stock and new...