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- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: I will come back to it.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: The ESRI also says it.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: Clearly, the Deputy does not.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: They will be assessed and if they pass the criteria, they will be included.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: One has to have an independent assessment.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: We were not responsible for the groupings.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: We have not ignored any areas.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: Read the strategy.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: -----to the process. I wish to say one other thing in the context of rent pressure zones. There has been much conversation in recent days with various different parties, but from my perspective, particularly with Fianna Fáil. There are a number of matters I would like to clarify in that context. Until now, the data has not been available to allow an area analysis deeper than at local...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: I am afraid it is not. People are trying to exaggerate for effect. We have said that we will continue to respect what is in place at the moment, a 24 month rent review requirement until the next review so nobody's circumstances are changed in terms of when the next review takes place. Only after that takes place will limitations of the rent pressure zone apply and annually after that. ...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: Amendments Nos. 3 and 4 to Government amendment No. 68. They are basically shortening the timeframe by which the RTB has to come back to the Minister when it is asked to look at the data and the numbers for an area. They are basically trying to speed up the process of getting areas designated. I have accepted a number of amendments in the Seanad in regard to this broader legislation and...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Order for Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 1:In page 5, to delete lines 30 to 33 and substitute the following:“(3) (a) Subject to paragraphs (b) and (c), this Act comes into operation on such day or days as the Minister may appoint by order or orders either generally or with reference to any particular purpose or provision and different days may be so appointed for different purposes or different...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: These amendments all relate to the commitment in action 1 of the rental strategy to introduce a time-bound system of rent predictability based on the concept of rent pressure zones. Under the system, I am proposing that areas where rents are high and rising quickly will be identified and designated by the Minister as rent pressure zones. In those areas, annual rent increases will be...
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: First, I want to set the record straight on a number of points in relation to the process here. I agree with Deputy Ó Broin in that regard. We have flagged for many weeks that we may use Report Stage of this Bill in order to ensure that there is a very short period between announcing quite a radical change in how the private rental market in Ireland will work and legislating for that...
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: It is important that everybody understands that the process was agreed here by spokespersons across all parties. It was debated in the Seanad at length and I flagged the issue that we would probably deal with this amendment to the legislation in the last week before Christmas so nobody should have been taken by surprise by that.
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: I accept that the process is unusual but the legislation we were planning to debate today has been subject to a lot of debate in the Seanad, in committee and in the Dáil on Second Stage. It was always suggested that the amendment on rent predictability or certainty would be brought forward on Committee or Report Stage if possible. That is exactly what is being proposed. That...
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: Let me finish with this because others had their say.
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: -----of ensuring that we do not undermine-----
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Simon Coveney: -----supply coming into the market as well as trying to protect hard-pressed tenants. As Deputy Micheál Martin said, we want to be constructive but as Minister I cannot agree to take a Government Bill in Government time if I do not know what the outcome is likely to be on Report Stage.