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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 84:84. In page 38, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “34. (1) Section 34(b) of the Act of 2004 is repealed. (2) The Act of 2004 is amended by inserting the following sections after section 34:“Restriction on termination of tenancies of buy-to-let dwellings34A. (1) A Part 4 tenancy may not be terminated by the landlord on the ground...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 10 to amendment No. 68:To delete section 24B and substitute the following:"24B.With effect from the relevant date (within the meaning of section 19(7)) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section 24A, orders under subsection (5) of that section shall be deemed to have been made in respect of the administrative areas of each of the following housing...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 65:In page 38, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “32. Section 5(1) of the Act of 2004 is amended by deleting the definition of “landlord” and substituting the following: “ ‘landlord’ means the person for the time being entitled to receive (otherwise than as agent for another person, excepting where that person is...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 66:In page 38, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “32. The Minister, within 3 months of the passing of the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 into law, shall bring a report to the Dáil on the options available for implementing rent controls, bringing rents to affordable levels and providing security of tenure...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 2 to amendment No. 68:To delete section 24A and substitute the following: “24A. (1)The Housing Agency, or a Local Authority, following consultation with the relevant housing authority, may make a proposal in writing to the Minister that an area be prescribed by order as a rent pressure zone. (2) The Dáil may, by resolution, and following consultation with...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 3 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 Principal Act is amended by inserting the following subsections after subsection (2):“(3) The setting of the 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)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I take the opportunity, on behalf of People Before Profit-Anti-Austerity Alliance, to thank the staff for their patience in the debate and their hard work in facilitating us throughout the entire Dáil term. I believe some discussions have taken place to try to ensure that we do not put them out more than is necessary in trying to get-----

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister thinks that will happen at this stage.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: In any event, we are committed to not dragging this out unnecessarily, although I believe the earlier debate was necessary because of the late arrival of an amendment on the critical issue of rent. I will make some brief points on this grouping. First, it is very unfortunate that the issues to do with what the Minister described as streamlining the planning process to achieve what he and...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: While information may be available to the Minister and in local authorities regarding the delays in delivering the housing supply that is needed, the point here is that such information is not being collated in a way that clarifies the debate we are having with the Minister about what exactly is causing those delays. The thrust of the Bill before the House is to suggest that proper public...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is disgraceful.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: There would not be much resistance to that. The problem is that the private developers will dictate the pace of when the planning application goes in, for what purposes it will be, what the prices are and all the rest. It will not be decided in the public interest, for the needs of the homeless or for the State, which effectively owns the property. That is the problem and that is what...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sometimes people power and action in the real world clarify what political or media debate in this House obscures. That is the contrast we are drawing regarding the Minister's explanation, as manifest in this Bill, for why there is a problem in providing the famous supply of affordable housing that we urgently need to deal with the crisis. Our explanation and, more importantly, the...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what this amendment deals with. It points out that we need to establish what is the real delay. That is what it is asking for, and it points to the fact that the biggest delay is the fault of the landlords, developers and property owners. I note the Minister is shaking his head. Can he explain why a building in NAMA hands is sitting empty? Is it because of problems with the...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was Deputy Bríd Smith's question also.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have just come from Apollo House where the Home Sweet Home campaign is currently occupying a building which, ironically, was formerly a social protection building. It is probably seven or eight storeys high. There are dozens of activists inside who are making available accommodation to homeless people on the street. Groups such as Simon are in there offering voluntary support services to...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister not respond first?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will we have two minutes?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not want to delay, but I want to respond on the process, the pressure and the Minister's reasons. To be honest, if the Minister looks at how this has played out, it has been a mistake to link the planning legislation element of the Bill to the residential tenancies aspect of it. I take the Minister's point on wanting to deal with the rent certainty issue in fairly short order, but he...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.