The Minister has published legislation that is going to make the most profound changes to the regulation of rents in the private rental sector in over a decade. From March of next year, tens of thousands of renters, progressively, quarter on quarter, are going to lose the meagre protections of the rent pressure zones and over time see their rents reset to market rents. Astonishingly, the Minister's Department conduct…
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Eoin Ó Broin
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- party Sinn Féin 29 November 2024 to now
The House should note for the second time tonight that the Minister has studiously avoided the question. What do we know about tenancies? The Residential Tenancies Board tells us that the average length of a tenancy is three and a half years long. In the past 12 months, 70,000 fresh first-time tenancies were created. That is 28% of the total number of private rental tenancies. If those trends continue - trends that h…
With the greatest of respect, security of tenure is no use if you simply cannot afford the rent. The family homelessness crisis started in 2014, not because landlords were selling but because landlords were hitting tenants with double digit rent increases. Over the space of three to four years, the number of children in homelessness went from 800 to over 3,000. As for the so-called security of tenure measures, the Mi…
Cost-rental supply, social supply, affordable purchase supply.
It is not apartments costing €3,000 per month. Get your head out of the sand.
Utter nonsense.
How will apartments for €3,000 per month lower homelessness and lower prices?
Affordable homes are needed and the Minister is not delivering them.
Sit down, you are embarrassing yourself at this stage, really.
Homelessness will increase month on month as a result of these failed policies.
I do not want to hear it, but I would like an answer to the question that you will not answer, repeatedly, over and over.
People can see your housing policy failures writ large.
Homeless figures are out on Friday. Are they going to be down? No, they will not.
I apologise.
I do not like homelessness rising and that is your responsibility.
I do not like rents and house prices rising and that is your responsibility. That is what I do not like, Minister, not your refusal to answer questions.
I apologise.
There was a protest outside today by homeowners affected by defective concrete blocks from Mayo and Donegal, but also from Fingal.
The homeowners in Fingal met the Minister's predecessor in 2022 and applied to the Housing Agency in 2023. The Housing Agency's report has been on the Minister's desk since June or July of this year. Can he tell us when he is going to make a decision because these homeowners desperately …
Will the decision be made before or after Christmas?
I thank Deputies Murphy and Coppinger for introducing the Bill and allowing us the opportunity to discuss this very important matter. Sinn Féin is always happy to support any Bill the intention of which is to strengthen the rights and improve the living conditions of people in the private rental sector. While no Bill, especially no Opposition Bill, is perfect or going to solve the problem by itself, allowing Bills su…
After months of delay, it is finally here. Almost a year into this Government, it is only now publishing its housing plan. Given the amount of time this has taken, we can be forgiven for expecting something bold and new, a plan, as the Tánaiste once said himself, to once and for all tackle the housing crisis. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Anyone who will take the time to read the plan will know the emperor has…
It is not new. It already exists.
It has existed since 2023.
It has existed since 2023.
The Tánaiste has been in government for more than ten years-----