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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (11 Apr 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to open up consideration of divestment of a national school to provide a multidenominational option for persons in north County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17101/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (11 Apr 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the working group will publish the outcome of its deliberations on new rural housing guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17083/19]

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister for the clarifications. He referred to enabling legislation and the guidelines coming shortly. Can he give us a timeframe for that? He said he cannot answer for the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, but when can we expect this regulation to be in place?

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

Jan O'Sullivan: Yes, but I am talking about the reference in amendment No. 182.

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I have questions about the 14 days. Is there a particular reason that the Minister decided on 14 days?

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

Jan O'Sullivan: My next question is about areas outside the rent pressure zones. This measure applies inside the rent pressure zones. Approximately one third of the city in which I live is in the rent pressure zone but the rest of it is not. I am aware there are other elements of the legislation which will probably make it easier for places to get into the rent pressure zones due to the way the averaging...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: The Minister should not. His predecessor said it would get in and it did not, so the Minister should not predict.

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

Jan O'Sullivan: It might be something that would have to be reviewed at some stage if it turns out that there are other areas-----

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I, too, welcome the amendments and thank the Minister and his staff for providing a great deal of detail in the various amendments. Amendment No. 11 in my name is virtually the same as amendment No. 5 in the Minister's name. I will not push my amendment. In any event, I do not think any of us will want to push our own amendments because we want there to be a solution. I pay tribute to the...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: Students who have been staying in a particular residence may want to stay for the following academic year. I am concerned there might be some pressure on them to sign up to that old rule. I presume that will all be clarified by way of information anyway.

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I am thinking more about the private providers rather than the universities. Presumably the universities will be aware of their obligations.

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

Jan O'Sullivan: As my amendment No. 11 is the same as Government amendment No. 5, I will not move it.

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I share the concerns that have been expressed already on the capacity of the AHB sector to deal with this. I support those who have said it has to be as simple as possible to reregister. There was a time when Limerick County Council encouraged the small AHBs in villages to provide for elderly people with crescent-shaped places for the elderly in the village to live in and to receive...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: My amendment No. 12 is included in this group. It is similar to Deputy Catherine Martin's amendment No. 8. Its purpose is to limit deposits to just one month's rent. We all know of situations where landlords have asked for two or even three month's rent in advance. That excludes people who do not have that amount of ready cash. I included this in a previous Bill and I would the Minister...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: It is my amendment to which Deputy Darragh O'Brien is referring.

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I am often mixed up with Deputy Shortall for some reason. I do not why.

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I am happy with the Minister's response as well. In respect of a definition of "deposit", my amendment No. 12 defines the term as "howsoever described, being money payable on entering into an agreement for the tenancy of a dwelling and intended to be held as security for the performance of any obligations, and the discharge of any liabilities, of the tenant under or in connection with the...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 10: In page 6, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “Copy of notice of termination to be served on board 3. Section 6 of the Act of 2004 is amended by inserting the following after subsection (6): “(7) Where a notice required to be served on or given to a tenant by a landlord by or under this Act is a notice of termination of the tenancy,...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: Amendment No. 10 is fairly simple. It provides that where notice is served, the Residential Tenancies Board is given a copy of the notice. The intention is to facilitate early intervention to prevent people from becoming homeless. I think the Minister has a similar amendment. He referred to it in his press statement, anyway. The provision is that the board would be informed when somebody...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (17 Apr 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide for more diversity of choice for parents of primary school children in an area (details supplied); if divestment or other proposals are under consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17877/19]