John Cummins (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I assume amendment No. 5 has been ruled out of order because the latter part of Senator Moynihan's amendment relates to a dispute on the value of the property being referred to the board, rather than to the substance of the original point raised during our Second Stage speeches. Can the Minister of State confirm that some mechanism will be put in place so that the RTB can notify the local authority when a termination notice is being issued to a HAP tenant? That is important and the closing of that circle has to be put in place. It is not necessarily vital that it is in the thrust of the Bill but it has to happen in the background. Without it, local authorities will essentially be shooting in the dark without knowing which tenants have been given notice of termination. They will be trying to effect an acquisition of a tenant in situ policy without knowing exactly which tenancies have received those notices.I would like some assurance that this will happen in the background because it is a necessity. I appreciate that amendment No. 5 has been ruled out of order. I believe that was based on the latter part of the amendment, not the substantive point Senator Moynihan was trying to make.