Seanad debates

Monday, 12 July 2021

Affordable Housing Bill 2021: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages

 

9:30 am

Photo of Pauline O'ReillyPauline O'Reilly (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Senator Cummins mentioned the regulations. As I raised previously in the House, I would like to see tenancies in perpetuity as a matter of course, but that has not been included in the Bill, to the best of my knowledge. The Minister envisages dealing with that through regulations. I would like to hear some commentary from him on that. We have to accept we are living longer, for one, and we do not want somebody to go into a cost-rental unit aged 20 and, in line with a previous amendment, have to leave aged 60. We want to ensure they will have that security of tenure, particularly in those older years when we do not want anybody to be worrying. In the case of someone who has died, for instance, what kind of succession path is there in regard to the property?

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