Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements
Dail Éireann — 2020-05-07
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Paul Murphy (PBP), Dublin South-West

The Minister did not really answer the question. Adjudications are still happening, even if they may be happening at a lesser volume than before. It is significant that the RTB is saying, and I have a letter from the RTB to someone involved in the case, that it will not be holding hearings. It will not hold physical hearings, but what is contained in that is that it will not hold hearings at all and will instead do paper-based adjudication. These adjudications will have the same weight as a proper hearing that would have happened before the moratorium kicked in and, therefore, people will have decisions made in advance. Maybe the Minister is not aware of that, in which case I find it surprising, but he might inquire of the RTB. Does he agree it would be wrong to get rid of, in this phase, the right of people to have a hearing and replace it in this way?

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Sitting date: 2020-05-07