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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)

Eoin Ó Broin: I think it is six months.

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, from memory, there was a quite a large development, which I am pretty sure was in Dublin 8 - I will dig out the detail - where these exemptions could be used to get vacant possession on eviction.

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me check and I will circulate 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)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am pretty sure of this. I am aware of one instance. I am not saying there has been more than one.

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not know if any amendment has been introduced to give effect to this. With all the RTA amendment Bills that had to do with either notice periods or changes to the rent pressure zones, when any of us attempted to introduce amendments to other parts of the Residential Tenancies Act, those amendments were ruled out of order. If I understand correctly, not only does the amendment have to...

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: Miscellaneous Bills are different.

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: The wonderful thing about a miscellaneous provisions Bill is that if it is, say, the Residential Tenancies Act (amendment) Bill, everything is on the table. However, my Bill, for example, relates to the deferment of tenancy dates. That relates to a very specific bit of the Act. I was very surprised the first time one of my amendments was ruled out of order because my experience had been...

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have no questions but I have a comment and an observation. The Chair may want to respond to the observation. In the second Part of the Bill, the one-stop shop - as it has been referred to until this point - is such an eminently sensible idea. I cannot count the number of times it has been proposed at an Oireachtas housing committee. If I am not wrong, it was Deputy Barry Cowen who first...

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: I understand Deirdre Ní Fhloinn, a former colleague of the Chair's, and Orla Hegarty did a lot of the groundwork for Deputy Cowen on that. Along with Eoin Ó Coffaigh and Mel Reynolds, they had also been making this case over and over on the issue of vacancy and dereliction during the previous Oireachtas. There is a certain frustration which I suspect is shared by the Chair 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)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, and they are very welcome. I had not thought of it until I read the Bill,but I like the idea of notification of an appropriate authority to give them an instigation to compulsorily purchase. Whether or not the Minister is the most appropriate, or the Minister and the local authority, ultimately the Minister does not CPO, it is the local authority. It may well be of course that the...

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: They could absolutely because there are different sections of a local authority.

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: Already there would be a situation where a housing department, for example, might notify the planning department orvice versa. It is not a criticism because I like the principle of it. It is just the most effective way of doing that in terms of who and what obligation is then on them to act. Clearly that is what we want.

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: My point is slightly different. People often think a local authority is a single entity but, of course, it is not. It is different departments, many with different functions. Invariably, whether it is the land management development or planning function of the local authority, the individuals responsible for the register sit on one side of the building and on the other side there are the...

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: And by the way, I do my own site visits. I know I do not generally come on the ones organised by the committee, but people should go to see Ellis Court. It is the best example I have seen of that kind of reuse of existing buildings. I had a long conversation with a pensioner who lives there and who had lived in residential accommodation somewhere else. It is life-transforming stuff. 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)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is doing the Townsend Street at the moment. Again, it is one of the 19th century or early 20th century social housing projects that was derelict for a very long time.

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is no more difficult to do than demolish and rebuild, which is the default option. Again, Ellis Court is the example. When I asked what was the all-in development cost, they had to go away and get the agreement of the chief executive to agree it, I thought it was going to be astronomically expensive over and above a standard development. It was tenanted earlier this year and late last...

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: And it is on the Luas line. If you think inner city sites are difficult that is literally where the Luas passes before you get to Croppies Acre. Sorry for going off.

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, the issue is what section of a local authority is going to compulsorily purchase a building. Obviously, the housing department can do it . If there is a development department or if it is a local authority with economic development functions, they might do it for commercial reasons. If we are talking about compulsorily purchasing properties by the housing department for either social...

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)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can I just confirm we are still meeting in private session on Tuesday, 11 January just to do the pre-legislative scrutiny report?