Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)

The amendment proposes an additional subsection in this section providing that tenants in receipt of social housing support from the voluntary sector prior to the enactment of the Bill are deemed to be qualified for social housing support under this section. The amendment is required to copperfasten the existing exclusion from the terms of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 of dwellings let by the voluntary sector to persons qualified for such support. Following the repeal under the Bill of section 9 of the Housing Act 1988, which is referred to in the existing exclusion set out in section 32(c)(ii) of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004, an amendment to that provision, included in amendment No. 107, and this addition to section 20 are necessary to update the exclusion of the voluntary sector from the terms of the 2004 Act.