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- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Thomas Gould: The Minister said the Government wants to bring in strong law and that the Government wants to protect tenants' rights. I believe the legislation will create strong law but to protect vulture funds and landlords and not tenants. The Bill is about profit. That is what it is about. I am here, as are many other Deputies who have tabled amendments, to stand up for people, families and...
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Bríd Smith: I want to speak to amendment No. 34. I emphasise there is something slightly disconnected happening with this attempt to remove the ban on evictions. As has been said, the reason the ban on evictions was introduced was to protect public health in the middle of a pandemic. What has changed? We do not know where we are heading with this. We do not know yet whether there will be another...
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Pat Buckley: I have listened to the debate for a while, and as a second-term Deputy, the more I listen to the Government on this the more worried I am getting. I am actually going into panic mode. The Government has a fabulous knack of watering things down. A lot of the Opposition amendments are based on one thing, which is fairness. Deputy Ó Broin spoke about protecting both sides, the renter...
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Mick Barry: My amendment, No. 10, will add to the category of relevant persons people aged over 65, all those who have lost income and those with underlying medical conditions. There is much confusion in society, created in large measure by people involved in the Government's spin machine. They were on the FM radio stations at the start of the week saying what the Bill would do, which gave the...
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will speak to our amendments, Nos. 10 and 33. The argument we are making in both amendments, very simply, is that we are still in a public health emergency. The ban was brought in to protect people against being evicted and made homeless in the context of an emergency that threatens people's health. Unless something has changed that we have missed, we are still in that public health...
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 5: In page 5, line 14, after "is" to insert "deliberately and intentionally".
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Amendment put and declared lost.
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Amendments Nos. 6 and 7 are related. Amendment No. 7 is consequential on amendment No. 6 and, therefore, they will be discussed together, by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 6: In page 5, to delete lines 16 to 18 and substitute the following: "(3) Section 6 of the Act of 2004 is amended, in subsection (1), by the insertion immediately after "this Act" of "orsection 4of the Residential Tenancies and Valuation Act 2020.". These are very technical amendments that are just for drafting purposes to tidy up the language. I have nothing...
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Amendment agreed to.
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 7: In page 5, to delete line 19 and substitute the following: "(4)Section 9 of the Act of 2004 is amended by—".
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Amendment agreed to.
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Catherine Connolly: Amendments Nos. 8 to 13, inclusive, 34, 37 and 38 are related and will be discussed together, by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 8: In page 5, to delete lines 31 to 39, and in page 6, to delete lines 1 to 21 and substitute the following: "(5) In this section, "relevant person" means any tenant.". What the Social Democrats' amendment seeks to do is to ensure that the limited provisions of this Bill apply to all tenants. I do not think a single Deputy in this House would disagree with the...
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Eoin Ó Broin: I support Social Democrats' amendment, but I also wish to speak to amendments Nos. 9, 11 to 13, inclusive, 37 and 38, all of which are mine. This cluster of amendments does something very similar to the amendment moved by Deputy O'Callaghan, albeit in a slightly more elaborate way. While the first amendment is probably the simplest amendment that I have tabled to this Bill, what it seeks to...
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Amendment put: The Committee divided: Tá, 57; Níl, 72; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Aodhán Ó Ríordáin and Duncan Smith; Níl, Deputies Brendan Griffin and Jack Chambers.
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Tá Chris Andrews, Mick Barry, Richard Boyd Barrett, John Brady, Martin Browne, Pat Buckley, Holly Cairns, Matt Carthy, Sorca Clarke, Joan Collins, Michael Collins, Catherine Connolly, Rose Conway-Walsh, Réada Cronin, Seán Crowe, David Cullinane, Pa Daly, Pearse Doherty, Paul Donnelly, Dessie Ellis, Mairead Farrell, Michael Fitzmaurice, Kathleen Funchion, Gary Gannon, Thomas...
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Amendment declared lost.
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy to support amendment No. 4, which is a much clearer and stronger amendment than mine. I fully concur with Opposition colleagues. Based on his comments so far, one would assume the Minister will not accept amendment No. 4. I ask him to look at the wording of this section of the Bill, which refers to a criminal offence where somebody provides information that is false or...
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Deputies for raising their various points. I will shortly deal with the specific queries Deputy Boyd Barrett had. Swearing a declaration is not a new provision. It is illegal to make a false declaration. That is not new and refers to a previous Act. In instances where somebody unintentionally does so, the RTB will obviously have discretion and will be asked to exercise its...