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- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have no wish to be awkward or to delay this legislation any more than it has been delayed already. However, the scale or significance of what is being proposed materially affects what everyone else is going to say for the rest of the debate tonight and tomorrow. Therefore, we absolutely have to recommit the amendment to committee now. Members must be given a full explanation of the...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: On a point of order-----
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is highly unusual for a Minister to submit an amendment to an amendment on such a substantial issue.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: We have only just seen the new amendment. Given the scale of the error in the original amendment, I suggest we need to revert to Committee Stage immediately to discuss this amendment to ascertain whether it actually does what we are being told it does. I am reading it now and I am still finding it difficult to see the difference between the new amendment and the original amendment. I am...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am formally proposing that we recommit to Committee Stage so that we have sufficient time to discuss the contents of what we have just been given. I should also mention that following discussions with my colleague, Deputy Pearse Doherty, I am also concerned about another aspect of the amendment. We need sufficient time to discuss this now or in the morning. We are not talking about a...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: Things were very cordial before Deputy Darragh O'Brien stepped into the Chamber.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: The housing spokespeople are all here.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: Read it out for the craic.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am far more tolerant than Deputy O'Dowd. At least, the Minister has agreed to regulate for this. I suggest that the Deputy work with the Minister to try to bring forward the regulations as a matter of urgency. I accept the Deputy's core point. I was a member of a local authority and we scrutinised the issue of NAMA houses very carefully. Two of the main problems for local...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: For all the policy criticism I make of the Minister, at least he has the decency to keep Members informed as to how matters are progressing. He has been very true to his word in that regard.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: Here is what happened, in my estimation. Fianna Fáil saw the negative reaction of many people to the measures when they were announced. Fianna Fáil backbenchers realised that many of their constituents would not be covered by the 4% cap and would be hit by higher increases, or would not even be able to handle the 4%. Pressure mounted on Fianna Fáil to try to change what was...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: No, I am interested to hear the Minister.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am quite happy to have the additional information.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: Anybody who uses the quarterly RTB index knows it has sub local authority areas. That information is already available up to quarter three. There is no reason that those areas could not be included now on the basis of those sub local authority areas. I also suspect, and the Minister can correct me later if I am wrong, that the RTB has the raw data and all it would require is a sufficient...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Deputy was in Cabinet for a period of time.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: This group of amendments relates to the Government's strategy for the rental sector launched this week. As we have no other formal opportunity to discuss the strategy, I want to open my comments on these amendments by making some observations on it. Given the fact we were led to believe this was going to be a comprehensive strategy for the fundamental reform of the private rental sector over...
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: Was there political interference in the publication of those amendments?
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: In the context of Deputy Micheál Martin's proposal, Fianna Fáil knew the detail of the so-called rent predictability proposals before they were launched. Fianna Fáil also knew that the amendments by the Minister were going to be tabled and that we would get them this week. We knew this for weeks, yet at no stage did I hear any objection from Deputy Cowen, the party's housing...
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Eoin Ó Broin: -----and is now trying to present itself as being opposed to a proposition that it was actually going to agree to all along. Regarding the Order of Business, we have not seen the full set of amendments for this Bill. We were told by the Bills Office that they would be available at 7 p.m yesterday but they have yet to be published. I would like to know why. Did the Government block the...