Lynn Ruane (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Regardless of whether my amendments are sufficient, I wonder why the current legislation does not extend the same provisions in respect of a tenancy and having no-reason eviction. At present, if someone is in a house for six years, the landlord can ask him or her to leave without a reason, but if he or she is there for three years the landlord would have to meet a set of requirements. Ignoring my amendments for the moment, why does that stand in the current legislation from the Department? Where a tenant is in a place for six years a landlord can just ask him or her to leave without an adequate reason and there are no legal protections.

My other question is about a family member. Is there a monitoring system? I am not sure if it happens very often but if a family member moving into a house is a good enough reason to evict tenants, how can we monitor whether the family member only stays for the duration of a summer, for example? What if it is a decoy to put a family member in the house for a short time? When a house comes off the market like that, do officials look back at those tenancies in any way to find out if the family member stayed there for longer than two or three months and it was not just used as a way to get families out? What type of follow-up monitoring process is carried out when a family is evicted from a house for a particular reason?