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Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 11 to amendment No. 68:In section 24B(1), to insert following after paragraph (e):"(f) Cork County Council; (g) Limerick City and County Council; (h) Waterford City and County Council; (i) Galway City Council; (j) any Local Electoral Areas or District Electoral Divisions where rent price inflation has been 5 per cent or above on the preceding 12 months as determined...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 75:In page 38, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following:"Amendment of section 28 of Act of 200433. The Act of 2004 is amended in section 28(2)(a) by the substitution of "for the period of ten years from" for "for the period of 4 years from".".

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 76:In page 38, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following:"Amendment of section 28 of Act of 200433. The Act of 2004 is amended by the insertion of the following new subsection:"(5) The Minster may by way of regulation extend the duration of a Part 4 tenancy from ten years to a period of indefinite duration.".".

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 55:To delete the proposed amendment no. 55 and substitute the following:“Amendment of section 19 (setting of rent above market rent prohibited) of Act of 2004 32. Section 19 of the Act of 2004 is amended by the insertion of the following subsections after subsection (2):“(3) The setting of rent under the tenancy of a dwelling that is...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Amendments Nos. 75, 76, 80 and 83 cover issues about which I feel very strongly about and which I pursued on Committee Stage. Two of the amendments seek to improve security of tenure by removing the sale of property as a ground for giving notice to quit and by moving from ten-year tenancies to tenancies of indefinite duration. I endorse what Deputy Jan O'Sullivan said about the Focus...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I support the amendments that have been tabled. We have had a very detailed discussion of this part of the legislation, which is probably the most significant part of it. Myself and a number of other Deputies tabled very detailed amendments at Committee Stage. It is not my intention to repeat the detail of all of those. I would just like to make some general comments, if I can. I thank...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is his second.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to notify the House that last night in Dublin a group of 100 citizens occupied a building in Tara Street in which NAMA has an interest, as part of the Home Sweet Home campaign to highlight the plight of homelessness in the city and the need for even more action from the Government. I commend them on what they have done. They are citizens who are appalled by the level of homelessness...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: On a point of order-----

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Not a chance.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: This debate is on Committee Stage not Second Stage.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for the briefing this morning and I thank the departmental staff for their work over the night. On consideration of the proposition that is now in front of us, I am convinced that the new formula does not provide for an 8% increase in the first year. On that basis, I welcome the fact that the Minister has corrected the proposal. I also emphasise the point I made...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: My impression is that officials in the Department have been put under enormous political pressure to deliver a piece of legislation according to a political time schedule. One of the consequences of that political pressure is the mess we are now discussing. That is the most evident thing here. What I am saying is in no way intended as a criticism of any of the officials involved in the...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a few subsequent questions. With regard to section 24C(1)(b), when the Minister refers to the provision in the previous section 20, which is the 24-month rent review, as having not been enacted, he is now referring to something that is no longer on the statute. It is something that has been amended as a result of Deputy Alan Kelly's legislation. Can the Minister confirm that this...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: By a lawyer.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that previous 12 month provision still on the Statute Book?

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The second question is this. In the original amendment No. 55, there were two options for t. It proposed to amend section 19 of the original Act of 2004 with an option for t under the proposed subsection (4)(a)(i), "the date that the current rent came into effect under the tenancy for the dwelling", which was to ensure the two year period. Section 19 of the original Act was to be amended...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Because it is not in the Minister's amendment. His new amendment has deleted the formula for R x all the way down to paragraph (b) under this section.