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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-----

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

Pearse Doherty: That is the point I am making to the Minister.

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

Pearse Doherty: If I can put the question, then the Minister will have the chance to answer it. In amendment No. 68, under the proposed section 24C, it states "where a tenancy commenced before the relevant date". The relevant date under section 19(7) is the date on which section 32 of this Bill will come into effect, which is a date in the future. What about tenancies that have already commenced? This...

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

Pearse Doherty: I ask the question because section 24C is about tenancies that have commenced before the relevant date, which is the tenancies that have already started. What about other tenancies that will start after this enactment, which section 24C does not cover? What prevents landlords from reviewing the rent of such tenancies every six months, three months or whatever? The Minister's formula,...

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

Pearse Doherty: I am trying to be helpful in order that we can move on. Let us say a landlord rented an apartment to me, I moved out and six months later the apartment was rented to Deputy Ó Broin. Under this provision, the landlord would be allowed to increase the rent by 4% on what I was paying six months ago but under the original amendment, that would not have happened. Under the original...

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

Pearse Doherty: Usually on Committee Stage, the Minister takes time to go through the amendment and explain it in detail. If the Minister wants me to take him at his word, I am baffled by the suggestion that this was a drafting error or an unintended consequence. Can he explain why he or his officials went to the bother of putting t/12 into the original amendment he proposed? It is not a dot somewhere or...

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

Pearse Doherty: We need to discuss the amendment now.

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

Pearse Doherty: Can I add to that?

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

Pearse Doherty: I support Deputy Ó Broin's proposal and commend him on pointing out the error. I disagree with the Minister's suggestion that this was a "drafting error". I believe it and its consequences were intended.

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

Pearse Doherty: The Government was found out because of the scrutiny of this legislation by Deputy Ó Broin. I put it to the Government and the party which claims to lead the Opposition that this is what real Opposition parties do. They scrutinise legislation instead of throwing power puffs across the floor in respect of issues that are not as substantial as those found by Deputy Ó Broin. In my...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Guím Nollaig shona ar gach éinne fosta. As with the previous two years, 2016 saw dramatic increases in motor insurance for drivers. Last month, the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, committed to producing the Government's report on the insurance industry before the end of the year. Given that we are in the last days of the Dáil's sitting...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Tomorrow is the day for that.

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach does not want to think about it.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (14 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 227. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment in Our Lady's Hospital, Crumlin following the HSE directing such a referral as necessary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40402/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (14 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 228. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40431/16]