Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2021-11-25
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Alice-Mary Higgins (IND), National University of Ireland

I move amendment No. 2:
In page 5, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following:
“(f) in subsection (5A)(a), by the deletion of subparagraph (ii),
(g) the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (5A):
“(5AA) For the purposes of paragraph (b) of subsection (5), a substantial change in the nature of the accommodation provided under the tenancy shall not be deemed to have taken place where the works carried out to the dwelling concerned result only in one or both of the following—
(a) in the case of a dwelling to which the European Union (Energy Performance of Buildings) Regulations 2012 (S.I. No. 243 of 2012) apply, the BER (within the meaning of those Regulations) being improved, or
(b) the dwelling being adapted to provide for access and use by a person with a disability, within the meaning of the Disability Act 2005.”,”.

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