Nursing Homes
Seanad Éireann — 2026-03-25
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Nessa Cosgrove (LAB), Labour Panel

I thank the Minister of State for listening to the real story behind these people. The tenants I have met are old, vulnerable, confused and scared. I appeal to the hopefully higher nature of the people who own the units. In the event of this not happening, there have to be emergency provisions in place whereby the Department can step in and acquire these properties via compulsory purchase order. I know from being a county councillor that the local authorities do not have the money. They have legislation whereby they could use compulsory purchase orders but they do not have the money. County councils should be resourced to look at whether there is a breach of the residential tenancies legislation in the sale of ownership and whether residents are being told there is a new landlord. The sale of the nursing home was authorised by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission but were these houses to be part of this also? There is a lot more to this than meets the eye. We have seen that 10,500 eviction notices have been issued since June last year, as soon as there was talk of changes to the residential tenancies legislation.
I thank the Minister of State for listening and I hope we will be able to have further conversations about this.

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Sitting date: 2026-03-25