Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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213. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide statistics on the number of pre-1963 properties in the State; and the estimated number of private rental units in such buildings. [4714/17]

Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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214. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department considered proposals during the drafting of the so-called Tyrellstown amendment in the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 to impose restrictions on owners of multiple rental units in pre-1963 buildings such that they would not be entitled to end a tenancy for reasons of sale, that is, that they would be covered under the Tyrellstown amendment or a similar provision. [4715/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 213 and 214 together.

My Department does not hold or collate statistics on the numbers of pre-1963 properties in the State or the number of private rental units in such buildings.Data from Census 2011 indicate that there were 392,447 dwellings built before 1961 in the State. Of those dwellings, almost 51,000 were in the private rented sector. New data will be published by the Central Statistics Office on housing related issues in April 2017 in respect of Census 2016.

Sections 38 to 40 of the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to provide, inter alia, that where a landlord proposes to sell 10 or more units within a single development at the same time (i.e. within a 6-month period), the sale will be subject to the existing tenants remaining in situ, other than in exceptional circumstances. These provisions are intended to avoid situations where large numbers of tenants have their tenancies terminated at the same time in the same development. The provisions apply to all instances of the sale of 10 or more units within a ‘development’ as defined in the 2016 Act and which are not otherwise exempt from its provisions.