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- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)
Martin Browne: Movement is definitely needed on facilitating the needs of students who are facing sky-high rents. Addressing the situation whereby students find themselves having to sign a contract that would lock them into paying for potentially unused accommodation for the summer months has been required for some time. Specifically, this Bill stipulates that specific student accommodation contracts...
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)
Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill, and it needs to be implemented as quickly as possible. Education is fundamental to the future of our country. Students going to college should have a good experience, and that includes safe and good accommodation at a reasonable price. This has not been the case in many instances in the past. Now we have a situation where some landlords and...
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Bill is welcome in that it addresses the scandalous problem of student accommodation providers charging for 51 weeks when the students' term is only 41 weeks. It is positive that will be prevented and that students cannot be required to pay more than a month's rent and deposit in advance, other than their fees, if they happen to be paying their fees, to the provider. Those are welcome...
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: We very much welcome this Bill. This issue was put on the agenda because of the very significant amount of work done by Sinn Féin and Deputy Mairéad Farrell. It has been brought up for a considerable amount of time. It was first a matter of identifying the number of these places owned by vulture funds and the average rents charged. There was then the question of 51-week leases,...
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)
David Cullinane: I welcome the Bill. I also commend my colleague and our higher education spokesperson, Mairéad Farrell, on her work in this area and on, in my view, putting this issue on the political agenda in the first place by identifying the total amount of vulture fund-owned PBSA, identifying the average rent charged and identifying where 51-week leases were being demanded, but also by identifying...
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I also welcome the Bill, which the Social Democrats will support. The issue of the Bill is very much tied into what has been happening around students' accommodation needs. This example has been highlighted very well by Deputy Mairéad Farrell but it is one of many examples of exploitation of students when it comes to housing. Perhaps it is not intentional, explicit or anything like...
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy Murnane O'Connor is next.
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Thank you. I did not realise I was sharing time.
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: You are not sharing; you have a slot of seven minutes.
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Oh, I have my own slot - that is perfect. I just saw eight minutes on the clock-----
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: The clock will be changed now.
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I will take the eight minutes. That is fine.
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: They have taken a minute off. They are brutal.
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Absolutely. A 51-week tenancy does not suit most students, including post-graduate and medical students. As more and more landlords look for such agreements, we need to put in place rules now to keep everything fair. Most students study during college terms and then take work during the summer months, which subsidises their education. They work to help to pay for their education, which...
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Fáiltím roimh an mBille seo. Tá sé tábhachtach go bhfuil sé os ár gcomhair inniu. Tá sé ríthábhachtach go ndéileálann muid le ceisteanna mar seo nuair a thagann siad chun cinn. Bíonn siad ró-mhinic sa chúlra agus ní phléitear leo chomh tapa is a bhféadfaí. Molaim gach éinne a bhí...
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)
Ivana Bacik: I welcome the opportunity to speak to this Bill. It is appropriate to see these changes made to the Residential Tenancies Act in order to align student-specific accommodation leases to the academic year. I commend the Union of Students in Ireland and student unions generally across the country. They have been campaigning and looking for this change for some time. I think we all agree...
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)
Thomas Gould: I acknowledge that this Bill has been brought forward quickly and in a constructive manner. We have worked with the Government to ensure that what is proposed in the Bill will happen as swiftly as possible in order to try to make sure students are not forced into these leases in September. We need to make sure that the President will be in a position to sign the Bill into law as soon as...
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)
Mairead Farrell: I welcome the fact that the Bill is before the House. It is timely and absolutely necessary. I acknowledge the work done by the students' unions in raising this issue and by so many students impacted by this who have come forward. I am conscious this is the last week before the Dáil goes into recess and I have two concerns as a result. One concern is that this is something we should...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: First, I sincerely welcome that everybody in this House who has spoken clearly condemns the horrific actions of Putin. I accept that, I acknowledge it and it is important that we say it, particularly after the horror of the children's hospital. I do want to acknowledge that. To be clear, I do not expect the Deputy to follow what I say at these summits, but I did very clearly say in my...
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)