Results 1,561-1,580 of 2,180 for speaker:John Cummins
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: It is a second-hand property not a new build.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: Let us say I intend to pay for it through a mortgage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: Exactly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: What happens if I then encounter a difficulty? I will tell Mr. Davitt where I am going with this. Within three months, you would definitely know that the sale is going to break down.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: Typically, you would not be waiting three months for somebody to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: I assume they would have taken a deposit at some point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: I take the point on the viewing of the property. However, within 90 days, the owner will know the tenant's best offer. To be clear on further invitations to bid, the briefing memo from the Department says that if, following an unsuccessful bid by the tenant during the initial 90-day period, the landlord proposes to enter into an enforceable agreement to sell to a third party on the open...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: That is another point I raised last week. There is nothing in the heads of Bill to say that the bid from the tenant has to be officially recorded. My concern about that process is that, subsequent to the fact, when the property is sold on the open market to somebody else, a tenant could say that they had offered a given amount and that the owner said it would be taken under consideration.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: However, in this process wherein the tenant is given 90 days, I suggest that it would be helpful for bids to have to be formally recorded. Does the IPAV agree with me? You do not want a situation to arise in which somebody subsequently claims they bid €350,000 when the property went for €350,000.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: That is the question I have. If one does not have to go back to the tenant, Mr. Davitt would be satisfied.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: Correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: That is the point I mentioned about that bid being formally recorded. I feel there is a necessity for that to be in legislation because we do not want a situation where people come back after the fact to say they actually bid €350,000 when they did not do so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: We will ask the Department-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: -----about the PSRA obligations on Thursday. I am sure it is listening in and will be ready for the answer on Thursday.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: To be clear, I never suggested circumventing an agent, because it is an essential part of the process. I agree wholeheartedly. If the witnesses took that up from anything I said there-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: It has to be recorded at some point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: Mr. Davitt would like us to put that in, of course.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I will not require the full ten minutes. This is very straightforward legislation. As the Minister of State said in his concluding comments, it is essentially about establishing the new constituencies for elections to Dáil Éireann and for the European Parliament elections which will take place in June of next year. We have a...
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023)
John Cummins: Next Tuesday.