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Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I will be brief because we dealt with quite a part of this on Committee Stage and I appreciate the clarifications the Minister has given on the amendments. Will the Minister address a query I have about amendment No. 55? Another Deputy raised a matter relating to the new subsection (6). This subsection deals with notices served, prior to the enactment of this legislation, under section...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: To be very clear, I do not want to delay these proceedings, and the issue has been well rehearsed by my colleague, Deputy Ó Broin, but there is genuine concern about the definition of tenancy. I listened to what the Minister said and I know he stated his understanding. It will be a considerable time before we vote on this amendment. I ask that the Minister uses this time to get a...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I would appreciate that. All it would take is a minor amendment regarding the date rent became last set under a tenancy, which would be consistent with what was stated earlier and which would allow-----

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: In fairness to Deputy Cowen, he was at the Committee Stage debate-----

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: When responding I ask the Minister to address a question. I have not had an opportunity to read the definitions under the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 Act but it deals with his amendment that is before us, what is now amendment No. 33. This would have been averted if the amendment to the amendment went through because this section was deleted, but now that it has been put back in I want...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: That would be found in the blacks.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Has somebody filled Deputy Cowen in?

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Has somebody filled Deputy Cowen in on what was happening?

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: The new formula, which is really reverting back to the original and tweaking it, does address the concerns that both Deputy Ó Broin and myself had raised with regard to the Minister's own stated objective, which is to have a 4% annual increase in rent pressure zones. Vacancies that were filled would be a part of that also, in that the 4% would be annualised in those areas. We wish to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (16 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 114. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners are currently examining any other similar scheme of co-operatives involving shares given by co-ops to members and not taxed appropriately, which they intend to categorise as remuneration received by employees or self-employed contractors, in view of the recent tax assessments raised by the Revenue Commissioners regarding...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Funding (16 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grants available for which chainsaw instructors may apply in order to provide training courses to trainees to enable them to secure skilled employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40598/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (16 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 383. To ask the Minister for Health the current average processing times for applications received by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland from those who wish to practise as nurses or midwives here; the efforts being made to reduce these times; his plans to reduce the fee payable by applicants in respect of registration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40898/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (16 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 557. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children taken into State care, by county, by the Child and Family Agency, Tusla in the years in each of the years 2014, 2015 and 2016 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40900/16]

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I would say that is unintended because the amendment that the Minister published this morning and put forward would mean that the increase would be 2%. How come the Cabinet has changed its mind and decided that now, in the aforementioned circumstances, it wants to allow landlords to double the rent increases? That is what the t/12 aspect in the equation set out in the Minister's amendment...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: This is worse than I thought. Let me make another point. Let us say I am a current tenant and I get a rent review on 1 January and the rent is increased by 4% so me and my family decide to vacate the premises on 1 February. Under the Minister's formula, the landlord can increase the rent by another 4% one month later. It is ridiculous. The Minister has said that he is trying to protect...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: It is on a similar point. As the night is going on, this is becoming a wee bit more unwieldy. I will put it to the Minister in the fairest way possible. I understand that we are working under a bit of pressure, but the Minister's previous answer shows to me that he does not understand what the formula is. The t/12 is not the 4%. The 0.04 is the 4%. That is the part of the formula that...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: No. A figure of 1 would mean annual. t/12 means that it can vary. For example, if it was 3/12, it would be a quarter of 4% and so on. The reason I say that is because the Minister still has not answered why t/12 was there. Even though t/12 was flawed, when we look at other parts of it, it did provide protections, which Deputy Ó Broin and I pointed out earlier on in cases of a...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Under section 24C?

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: The point I am asking the Minister-----