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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide in tabular form a list of all completed housing schemes funded via the Affordable Housing Fund including the name of each scheme; the local authority area in which the scheme is located; the number of units in each scheme including a unit bedroom number breakdown; the purchase price of each unit by size in each...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when emergency funding for interim fire safety and other measures for homeowners and OMCs with Celtic tiger era building defects will be made available. [54149/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to bring forward legislation to give effect to the planning recommendations of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation published in 2019 [54148/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have eight questions and might not get to all of them in the first round. Of the 26 heads of the Bill, only five relate to the title. That must be a new record. If I am correct, 80% of the heads of the Bill relate to other areas of reform of the Residential Tenancies Act. It is often the practice to throw in some non-consequential or semi-consequential amendments at the end of a Bill...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is more like a miscellaneous provisions Bill than anything else. I will not argue over that, however.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is almost like a pause in the notice-to-quit, NTQ, timeline-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----if it is agreed by both sides.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is irrespective of the length of time. If I get six months' notice and move out at the end of six months and, within one, two or three months of my moving out, the landlord gets an offer that is the same as or lower than the offer, then, irrespective of the length of time, the landlord still has to offer it to me, as the tenant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: If the tenant is overholding, does that invalidate his or her right to purchase at the same-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Overholding would render the tenant ineligible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: With respect to a landlord who wants to sell vacant and does not put the property on the market, the tenant still has the right to make the bid but would, in effect, be forced to move out on the due date because, otherwise, he or she would be ineligible to have the offer at any later stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the rationale for the exclusion of tenancies other than Part 4 tenancies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Senator Cummins has highlighted a potential loophole that could be open to abuse.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is very clear, so I am not disputing the point. Let us take an example. I want to sell my rental property to my son and I want to do so at below market value. If I issue a notice of termination on grounds of sale, I will not be allowed to do that because the rules of the scheme mean I have to sell it to the tenant, if the tenant makes a higher bid. What has just been outlined is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: They can bid as per the normal process. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: However, the rule which means the landlord has to sell to the tenant at the price they have set, unless they get an offer higher than that, does not apply to local a authority or AHB. Is that correct? For example, if somebody wanted to sell the property at a lower price, there would be nothing stopping them from taking that lower price rather than selling to the AHB or the local authority....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: They cannot accept that. They still have to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. In the case of a tenantin situacquisition by a local authority or AHB, the tenant is not buying the property. The offer to purchase the property comes from the local authority or the AHB to the estate agent or the landlord. Explain to me as clearly as possible what it means if the tenant does not have the money to buy the property, but they engage with the tenant in situ scheme? Are...