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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: The suggestion then is that, because it might take a long time to adjudicate on the price or whether it was undue hardship on the landlord, etc., the tenants end up living with the resulting stress for as long as this situation continues and, in a way, this can almost encourage people to say they will get out because they cannot be living with that kind of situation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: Does anybody know why the figure of ten was settled on? I am trying to think of an example. If someone had 18 units, he or she could serve notice to quit on nine people and six months later, separately, on more people. I refer to Tyrrelstown. There is the arbitrary figure of ten. Does anybody know where that arose from?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: I am just thinking that if we take one of those big three-storey Georgian blocks or something like that, somebody might want to sell that as a residence or something at some point. Is ten the number in that regard? I do not know. Finally, this is the Residential Tenancies Act. In all the times we have amended that Act, has the Deputy sought to introduce this as an amendment or has it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: I know this PMB is relatively newly introduced, but back in 2020, 2021, 2022, when we amended the RTA, did anybody introduce this? I am wondering if a Minister has rejected or commented on this amendment already at any stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: Yes, but you did not introduce this as an amendment to any RTA.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: I think it would be helpful to the committee to know if there has been a ministerial response to this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: That is interesting because when we were doing the road traffic miscellaneous provisions Bill, I think I sought to introduce an amendment to the Road Traffic Act that was not covered and I do not think it was ruled out-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: So you can put anything into a-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: We can arrange that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: Thank you, Deputy O'Callaghan. Are there any further questions on that? No. I will take my slot now. My Bill is called the Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill. It is partly put together from a Fianna Fáil Private Members' Bill. I think somebody else sought to reintroduce that Fianna Fáil Private Members' Bill at one point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: One of our Green Party researchers, Kate Ruddock, is here this afternoon. We have gone through the history of PMBs around this subject matter of dereliction, vacancy and regeneration and what we found was that, across all parties in the House, there was a desire to do something about it. As realists, however, we all know that whereas a Member can write a PMB and it is an absolute privilege...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: I do not think that occurs in the Seanad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: I thank Deputy Cian O'Callaghan. Have any of the members got any questions on it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: I think it would be helpful if you were to look back. Deputy Ó Broin, I do not know if you are aware of anybody having introduced such an amendment. I do not recall. I certainly have not done so anyway. We amended that Act a couple of times during the Covid pandemic, did we not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: That is correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: The derelict sites.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: No, it is the local authority which notifies itself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: Okay. Yes, I have got you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Scrutiny of Homeless Prevention Bill 2020, Tenancy Protection Bill 2023 and Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2022: Private Members' Bills (14 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: What we are trying to achieve here is that we want every local authority to have an online derelict sites register. I can see absolutely no reason in this day and age that they would not have that online register. It is absolutely ridiculous as far as I am concerned. Part of that online register would include the outstanding levies and how long this building has been on the register. When...