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

Eoghan Murphy: Amendment No. 33 brings the 4% rent increase ceiling to an end on the same date as the end of the RPZs, namely, 2021.

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

Eoghan Murphy: Amendment No. 34 amends section 24B of the 2004 Act to provide that deeming Cork city, Dublin city, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin as RPZs expires on 31 December 2021.

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

Eoghan Murphy: Amendment No. 35 inserts a new section 24BA into the 2004 Act to provide that the administrative area of Cork City Council, which was deemed a rent pressure zone on 24 December 2016, includes the area transferring from Cork County Council to the city council on 31 May 2019. The Chairman will know that we increased the boundary for Cork, and it is just to make sure that Cork city, as it will...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I cannot accept this amendment because it would essentially give six months' advance notice before a rent review, which is not necessary.

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

Eoghan Murphy: I move amendment No. 17: In page 6, to delete line 7 and substitute the following: “(b) in subsection (5), by— (i) the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (a): “(a) to the rent first set under the tenancy of a dwelling, provided that no tenancy in respect of that dwelling subsisted during the period of 2 years immediately preceding the date on...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I move amendment No. 19: In page 6, to delete lines 12 to 15 and substitute the following: “(a) the works carried out to the dwelling concerned— (i) consist of a permanent extension to the dwelling that increases the floor area (within the meaning of Article 6 of the Building Regulations 1997 (S.I. No. 497 of 1997)) of the dwelling by an amount equal to not less than 25...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I move amendment No. 20: In page 6, to delete line 16 and substitute “(ii) result in any 3 or more of the following:”.

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

Eoghan Murphy: I move amendment No. 21: In page 6, line 17, to delete “is” and substitute “being”.

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

Eoghan Murphy: I move amendment No. 22: In page 6, line 18, to delete “is” and substitute “being”.

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

Eoghan Murphy: I move amendment No. 23: In page 6, to delete line 21 and substitute the following: “(III) a permanent increase in the number of rooms in the dwelling, or”.

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

Eoghan Murphy: I move amendment No. 25: In page 6, to delete lines 22 to 26 and substitute the following: “(IV) in the case of a dwelling to which the European Union (Energy Performance of Buildings) Regulations 2012 (S.I. No. 243 of 2012) apply, the BER (within the meaning of those Regulations) being improved by not less than 2 building energy ratings,”.

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

Eoghan Murphy: I move amendment No. 32: In page 7, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: "Amendment of section 20 of Act of 2004 4. Section 20 of the Act of 2004 is amended— (a) in subsection (5), by the substitution of “1 January 2022 and from that day” for “the day immediately before the fourth anniversary of the day on which section 25 of the Residential...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I move amendment No. 33: In page 7, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 24A of Act of 2004 5. (1) Section 24A of the Act of 2004 is amended— (a) in subsection (4), by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph(b): “(b) the average rent (determined by reference to the information specified in paragraph (a)) in...

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

Eoghan Murphy: I move amendment No. 34: In page 7, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: "Amendment of section 24B of Act of 2004 6. Section 24B of the Act of 2004 is amended by the substitution of “during the period commencing on the relevant date and ending on 31 December 2021” for “from the relevant date for a period of 3 years".".

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

Eoghan Murphy: I move amendment No. 35: In page 7, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: "Amendment of section 24 of Act of 2004 7. The Act of 2004 is amended by the insertion of the following section: "Relevant area within meaning of Local Government Act 2019 deemed to be rent pressure zone 24BA. (1) For the purposes of section 24B, the administrative area of Cork City Council shall...

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

Eoghan Murphy: Did we discuss amendment No. 33, which deals with the new qualifying criteria for rent pressure zones?

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

Eoghan Murphy: As I said, it deals with the new qualifying criteria. We are taking Dublin out of the picture. There will be two new qualifying criteria. The first is the greater Dublin area, excluding Dublin, plus the rest of the country to qualify in the greater Dublin area, and the second is the rest of the country, excluding the greater Dublin area, to qualify outside of the greater Dublin area.

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

Eoghan Murphy: It is too early to say. I have seen data from the RTB and we also ran the numbers. For a while now, the committee has been calling for a review of the qualifying criteria. I have been engaged with the RTB on various pieces of work in that regard. Each scenario threw up different results. I wanted to come up with a change that was simple and would not confuse people such that both the...

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

Eoghan Murphy: The RTB has completed its quarter 4 rents index for 2018, on the back of which there were two new designations. If we get this legislation into law at the beginning of May, at some point in June the RTB will do the quarter 1 index for 2019 using the new criteria.

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

Eoghan Murphy: In regard to Cork and the city boundary change, two areas in the county were already covered by an RPZ but they have come into the city. It is a moot point because they were covered before and they are covered now.