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Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: I move: That Seanad Éireann notes that: - the private rental sector is dysfunctional with ever-increasing rents and decreasing standards; - the average State-wide rent now stands at €1,823 per month; and the average new rent in Dublin city is €2,349, €1,999 in Galway city, €1,907 in Cork city, €1,907 in Limerick city and €1,537 in Waterford...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Lynn Boylan: As my colleague said, the dire state of the private rental sector remains a crisis and the Government has failed to grasp it. Speaking to people when out on the doors, those in the private rental sector are fed up, frustrated and they do not have security of tenure. I also end up talking to the adult children living in their parents homes about how desperate that situation is. We cannot...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

John Cummins: I have listened intently to the speeches on a very important topic made by my two colleagues on the other side of the House. In case there is any uncertainty, I can assure them that there is absolutely nobody on the Government side that is throwing in the towel on housing. Far from it. That is why we introduced a €5 billion budget for housing this year. That is why we have seen...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and thank Sinn Féin Senators for tabling this timely motion. It is right this issue should be debated, in a respectful way. It highlights many issues. Many of us will remember a document called Rebuilding Ireland. That promised that within six or eight months we would have no homeless people. Nobody would be living in a hotel or sleeping...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Sinn Féin Senators for tabling the motion because renters are often overlooked in the debate on housing. They have come to the forefront now because they are paying sky-high rent while knowing every day that they are living in insecurity. Landlords can evict them if they sell up. Renters must wonder whether that eviction will then make them part of the 13,531 people who...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Frances Black: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I too thank the Sinn Féin Senators for bringing forward this motion, and I am very happy to support it. There is no doubt about it: we all know what a disaster the housing market is and the catastrophic impact it is having on so many people's lives. I think every single person in this Chamber would personally know many young families who...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Paul Gavan: The Minister of State is very welcome. We have a housing crisis. It is worth saying that, because it is very clear from the speeches made by both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil representatives here that they do not believe it. That is absolutely shocking. When Fine Gael came into power, 3,500 people were homeless and now, 13 years later, the figure has gone up to 13,500. That is its...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Garret Ahearn: You would know that there was a poll at the weekend. Every time Sinn Féin slides, the only thing it seems to think it can talk about is housing. Yet, every time they talk about housing after a polling collapse, they make another blunder of some kind. What I hear most now in Tipperary is people saying how Sinn Féin does not have a clue what it is talking about. It does it week...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Garret Ahearn: Through the Chair, I actually welcome the interruption. The Senator said it would be because it would increase the price of housing. I do not agree with her but let us say she is right. Let us take an example of a house in Clonmel that costs €300,000 where someone wants to buy that house at the moment. Let us go with Senator Boylan’s argument. They are struggling, they...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Garret Ahearn: There is the desperation of interruption, the desperation of talking about housing and the collapse of support for Sinn Féin. They do not what to do. They do not know what to talk about. They think they know something about housing, but every time they talk about it, they now lose more support. We go on and on. People are looking at Sinn Féin now and are saying there is no...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Aisling Dolan: ...had to rent pretty much all my life. I have rented in Dublin and Galway. As a tenant, I have had the challenges, particularly in difficult times, of having to move many times and find accommodation. I am renting in Ballinasloe now. People have a choice. They obviously want to have a home and invest long term and, please God, that will happen for me too. Availability - demand and...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the motion from Sinn Féin and the opportunity for debate it provides. I welcome the Minister of State. As I have said previously in the House, I recollect that in 2011, when I was in the other House, we had a debate on housing in which we talked about developers and banks that had gone bust, ghost estates, people in negative equity and the IMF being in charge of the country....

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: It is disappointing that this motion on the private rental sector includes no recognition of the introduction of the rent tax credit, which allows a couple to claim a credit of €1,000 for 2022 and 2023 and €1,500 for 2024 and 2025 in respect of rents paid. Indeed, I see no mention of the credit on the Sinn Féin website. It is disappointing that this scheme for people in...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: The tension in this debate is not there because Sinn Féin has created that energy but because housing consumes everyone's life. In smoking areas, clubs, queues for clubs, cafes, among sports teams and on trips, housing and renting consumes the life of everyone. Senator McGahon said people do not care who builds the home, where it is built or about all these regulatory and legislative...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That Seanad Éireann:" and substitute the following: “notes that: - Housing for All is providing record levels of funding to support the delivery of social and affordable homes by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies and the Land Development Agency; - over €5 billion in capital investment is available in 2024...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

John McGahon: ...while they were giving a speech. Whether I agree or disagree with others, they have a right to be heard. If I can continue my comments for the next few minutes without interruption, I would greatly appreciate it. Comments were made about Australia, however, and they were reiterated in the Dáil. I will read into the record what I saw a few weeks ago when I glanced at some...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I thank Senators Warfield, Boylan and Gavan for tabling the motion. I will respond to a few points raised by Senators during the debate. Senator Warfield asked a question about the housing referendum. We expect the Housing Commission report will be furnished to the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, by the end of March and brought to Government soon after. Points were put by other Senators...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: Since 2012, house prices have risen more dramatically than wages and that has left a significant number of people, young people in particular, locked out of home ownership and living in the private rental market. People are paying more than 40% of their salary on rent. What are they getting in return? No protection if the home is sold; no protection if the landlord decides to move in; no...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

John Cummins: Tomorrow at 9.30 a.m.

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Cuireadh an Seanad ar athló ar 6 p.m. go dtí 9.30 a.m., Déardaoin, an 7 Márta 2024. The Seanad adjourned at 6 p.m. until 9.30 a.m. on Thursday, 7 March 2024.