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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Will Mr. Davitt revert to my question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: So Mr. Davitt is saying 50% of properties sold at the moment are landlords exiting the market.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Help me understand why they are coming to that decision.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Not every landlord selling is coming out of a dispute. There are landlords selling not as a selling of a dispute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Mr. Davitt is saying a significant portion of landlords who are selling are doing so as a result of poor experiences in the RTB.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Are they selling because they believe they are selling at a below-market rate because of the rent-pressure-zone limitations on the rental price?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Are the people in that scenario with active mortgages and borrowings against their properties or are they people who have cleared their borrowings?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I realise this is anecdotal. For whatever reason, landlords are making a decision to sell. I am trying to get an overall picture of why that is. In part, Mr. Davitt is saying it is because they believe the chargeable rent is below the market rent rate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Is it people who are coming with their hands up and saying that they cannot cope with being landlords anymore and that they do not want to be landlords?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I think Deputy Ó Broin made the point that maybe it is not sustainable for some landlords to continue because they are not able to absorb the administrative burden that comes with being a landlord. Given that we have now made the standards for landlords more professional, is it that some people will exit the market as a direct result of that new administrative level, which many people...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: IPAV represents those involved in commercial property letting as well as people who engage in residential property letting. In the commercial setting, there is a great deal of regulation. For example, if leases go beyond four years and eight months, there is the renewal of business rights, etc. Commercial letting continues to be a productive sector. Can one compare the two markets?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate I am over time but perhaps I will put that question to the IPOA. If, similar to commercial leasing, where people who go beyond the five-year period take on a different type of tenancy but it is a tenancy that people have the right to renew, which would give security of tenure, Mr. Davitt is indicating that landlords would be willing to accept that responsibility. Would the IPOA...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: For our report later on, it is worth putting on the record.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: That comes back to my suspicion regarding the conflicting roles that a property owner-landlord has. Such individuals continuously want the flexibility of the asset sale, but there are also the responsibilities of being a landlord. There is a conflict there. I appreciate it but, particularly, the points made on the RTB were not lost on me. I would say that each of these organisations...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Perhaps that is a message which is not often heard by landlords. Equally, if they were held in a company, the shares in the company could be sold and the tenants would remain.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I will let Ms Conway make the last point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: That is a point on which we can all agree. I thank the witnesses for their participation. This has been a constructive meeting.
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Energy Prices (15 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: 34. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his Department's planned supports to help businesses with the ongoing energy crisis in Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45051/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Corporate Governance (15 Sep 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: 68. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to implement the European Directive for Corporate Social Responsibility in Ireland; and if it will be linked to the Pobal deprivation index in order to benefit communities who most need it. [45052/22]