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Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: It would be good to get a formal response at some stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Did we miss votes on some of the amendments?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: We do the votes in sequence, apologies.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Chairman has told me that already. I move amendment No. 134:In page 35, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 19 of the Act of 2004 27. Section 19(2)(b) of the Act of 2004 is hereby repealed.”. I will not rehearse the very lengthy debates we have had on rent certainty. I will not open up that part of the debate.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is not getting off that easily.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I listened carefully at the press conference today. Obviously, because we have been in Committee all day, we did not have the time to read the detail of the report. I went to the launch to get as much of the detail as possible. I would like to hear the Minister's response to two things in light of what he said today. He talked about the balance between the ability of the investor to make...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is 10.30 p.m.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: When I break my own rules on acronyms, it always goes wrong. I meant the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund. A 4% annual return is reasonable. From what I can see, the Minister has not provided for 4% annual return. It is 4% in the first year, effectively 8% from base point in the second year and 12% in the third year. So it is a significantly higher level once a landlord passes that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 135:In page 35, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following:“Insertion of section 19A in the Act of 200427. The Act of 2004 is amended by the insertion, after section 19, of the following new section:“19A. Any subsequent setting of the rent under the tenancy by way of a review of that rent shall not be greater or less than the level of inflation as...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 136:In page 35, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following:“27. The Act of 2004 is amended by the insertion, after section 19, of the following new section:“19A.Any subsequent setting of the rent under the tenancy by way of a review of that rent shall not be greater or less than an index as decided by the Minister through regulation.”.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy Kenny would never feel such a thing.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 145:In page 35, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following:“Amendment of section 28 of Act of 2004 28. The Act of 2004 is amended in section 28(2)(a) by the substitution of “for an indefinite period from” for “for the period of 4 years from”.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 148:In page 35, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:“Restriction on termination of tenancies of buy-to-let dwellings 29. The Residential Tenancies Act 2004 is amended by inserting the following section after section 34:“Restriction on termination of tenancies of buy-to-let dwellings 34A. (1) A Part 4 tenancy may not be terminated by the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 149:149.In page 35, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:“Amendment of section 34(b) Table 3 of the Act of 2004 29. The Act of 2004 is amended by the deletion of “3. The landlord intends, within 3 months after the termination of the tenancy under this section, to enter into an enforceable agreement for the transfer to another, for full...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 163:In page 36, line 17, to delete “5 or more” and substitute “1 or more”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 164:In page 36, to delete lines 20 to 34.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Message to Dáil (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Some of us gave the staff a very significant number of amendments so I thank the departmental staff who came back to us with the information, our clerks and, in particular, the Bills Office. Perhaps the Chairman could write, on our behalf, to the Bills Office to thank them for turning the amendments around so quickly.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Agency Portfolio (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason for the low take-up of house purchases by the Housing Agency from banks (details supplied) as detailed in Parliamentary Question No. 145 of 1 December 2016; and if he will provide additional funding to the Housing Agency to increase the number of these properties to be purchased as a matter of urgency....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (13 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 246. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to meet with representatives of the Ringsend Glass Bottle Site Housing Action Group (details supplied) to discuss their plans for the old glass bottle site portion of the SDZ in Ringsend, Dublin; and if he will consider their proposals for maximising the provision of social and affordable housing in that...

Social and Affordable Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: On behalf of Sinn Féin, I am very pleased to be able to support Deputy Jan O'Sullivan's Bill. As with much of the work many of us have been doing, including the Deputy, this Bill is about trying to increase the supply of social and affordable housing to tackle the acute levels of housing need and homelessness. The Minister said earlier that the November homelessness figures indicate...